Art, plz

Friday, May 05, 2006

Shifting out of neutral

So much of everything is just doing it. You can't get good at playing an instrument without actually playing it, and it sounds absolutely awful until you get good enough to make it sound less awful. That's like the saying, "there are a million bad drawings sitting there inside of you, so you better start drawing now to get them out." It's true... but it's not like a queue, bad drawings to the front of the line, good drawings stay in the back. Every fifty, or twenty, or so, a good drawing sneaks in.

That's what I think. It's not so much drawing the five billion bad drawings you have lurking in your fingertips, it's practicing enough so that one in five, or possibly one in two, is a good one.

Out of five pages of faces, this dude is IMO the good one in thirty.