Ask Your Elders: How Can I Be Better At Art?

I feel like it's implicit, or should be, that there is no objectively correct way to improve one's technical or compositional skills; if I'm responding to a question agen asked about how to improve their art, it's colored by my estimation of what would be most helpful for their specific situation, and it wouldn't hurt to make that explicit. Fundamentally seedy and I I think are both advocating learning to look at things and communicate them in an abstract visual medium effectively, and I don't think there's any universal way to do that, just various methods that have worked for different people in the past and my perception of how agen specifically can achieve that (which is itself inherently influenced by my perception of what would work for me). If my post communicated that my beliefs and recommendations were universal, it is without my intention. I agree that advice like what I've given is frequently pushed as the only way to improve when it is not, accept I could be wrong in my estimation of whether or not it's appropriate here, and mistakenly thought I had already communicated those beliefs. It is worth pointing out that any method of self-improvement has the potential to be harmful if done without the mental and physical tools to understand it, and I don't intend to perpetuate false universality by expressing that I think this particular instance happens to be appropriate for too-often-given advice.

This probably reads as defensive and passive aggressive, but neither of those are tones I intend; I am just trying to express myself precisely because I know I often do not.