RE: Ask Your Elders: How Can I Be Better At Art?
06-25-2017, 05:19 PM
I got a general tip good for anyone starting out. Practicing is a skill just like any other activity. If you haven't done a lot of it chances are you won't be very good at it, you will get frustrated, tired, bored, distracted. That's okay that's just how it goes.
The more you do something the better you get at it. More importantly the easier it becomes to do it again and longer.
Do it every day. Doesn't matter if it's just a line on a page what matters is that you start and you go until you don't want to anymore. Let yourself recover. You'll be able to go longer next time.
What you are doing is not only learning how to art but learning how to practice. The longer you do so the more your mental and physical stamina for the activity develops and the easier it will become to focus.
Diversify. Don't let yourself fall into one small part of the skill. The folly of learning how to do something is that you only get good at what you do. If you only sketch you will only get good at sketching for example. Do everything. The more you do this the easier it will become to do that. It's a skill just like everything else you do.
The more you do something the better you get at it. More importantly the easier it becomes to do it again and longer.
Do it every day. Doesn't matter if it's just a line on a page what matters is that you start and you go until you don't want to anymore. Let yourself recover. You'll be able to go longer next time.
What you are doing is not only learning how to art but learning how to practice. The longer you do so the more your mental and physical stamina for the activity develops and the easier it will become to focus.
Diversify. Don't let yourself fall into one small part of the skill. The folly of learning how to do something is that you only get good at what you do. If you only sketch you will only get good at sketching for example. Do everything. The more you do this the easier it will become to do that. It's a skill just like everything else you do.