The Drawing Advice That Changed My Life

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• Author: struthless
• Full Title: The Drawing Advice That Changed My Life
• Category: #articles
• Summary: In 2016, I received some advice that changed how I draw and who I am. This is that story.
• URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6NsEDwHHiE&list=LL&index=6

Highlights

• you know what yourproblem is one day you write a song thenext day you write a poem and then thethird day you do a drawing and none ofit adds up toanything all you're doing is laying asingle brick of a million differenthouses and expecting that one day it'llmagically become a mansion it's notgonna happen (View Highlight)
  • Note: What are you building towards? Do not be scattered?
• I realized the brilliance of MarkShatner's advice he wasn't telling me todraw an iris he was just telling me tostart because once I start only then
  will I find the thing that I'm lookingfor but I would never have got there ifI hadn't drawn the eye this every singleday (View Highlight)
• quantity leads to quality I'vesaid this before I mean it's the reasonthat my videos are now gonna be 70%instead of 100% perfect (View Highlight)
  • Note: Just focus on quantity in the beginning. Over time it will lead to quality.
• but compare a blank page with a blankpage that says draw an Ibis or a blankpage that says draw a robot or a flyinghorse or any kind of tight briefimmediately having a constraint lets youknow exactly what you're going to bedoing (View Highlight)
  • Note: Constraints can actually INCREASE creativity.
• action comes be (View Highlight)
• firstly you need to act and only then
  will you find your motivation (View Highlight)
• hinking about stuff is not doing stuffit's the complete opposite of doingstuff (View Highlight)