A thought i wanna share with you beautiful people

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Read this on the calendar the other day:


" They told me and i forgotten. I saw it and i get it. I did it and then i learn." Chinese proverb





That got me thinking for a while, i still have this piece of paper on my desk, is really powerful thought, this can also be applied to learning to draw. Reminded me one day when a guy told me, "hey you should learn composition!", instead of getting mad like a diva, i was intrigued by the word composition, it was a topic ive never heard about ,not even in a school and i studied design( yeah bad teachers). So is an advice that you can easily forget, so if if someone tells you that you have something wrong, you just cant learn... till you actually see it.


That means i had to go and buy books, read and read a lot, till i get it. But the only way to learn it is by doing practices and learn from mistakes. The more mistakes you do the more it gets tattoed in your brain.


This chinese phrase sumarizes why they call  learning to draw a "muscle memory", which means only till you make it and fall you will learn.



Reminds me when my friend Simon Bork said to me hey, duude, take care of your contrast in your images, took me 5 years to realize what he meant, i was like thank you dude ive finally get it. Yeah i know im slow, but sometimes they give you the best advices and only tru experience you will learn. so people wanting to use other artists brushes you probably wont know how to use them, i mean its like giving a kid a shotgun, because the artists had been using those brushes for years, and he knows the flaws and advantages of each one, but you have the wrong idea that if you have same pen, same pencil, same paper he uses you could skip those steps.


So each time you use a new tool, your muscle memory starts from zero, even if you had a similar tool, but the speed of how fast you learn depends on people, some are fast, some are slow like me.





So to stay positive, ditch the mentallity of a race, its a marathon, so dont lose your breath guys. And train those muscles.





(Ps. I was really happy to see the participation from you guys on past journals, thank you.)

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Kinkifun's avatar
I really appreciate this lesson.