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#164 - Some Fantastic Books - Some Free - On Drawing With Pen And Ink
Since Inktober is around the block, I wanted to share some fantastic books that teach you how to draw in pen and ink.
#163 - Becoming An Artist By Not Trying To Be One
Stay off social media as much as you can.
Focusing on pleasing others and making what you think the market wants can become soul-destroying.
#162 - Traveling As A Part Of Our Creative Habit
On going outside to trigger ideas.
I discovered this fifteen years ago on a holiday in Japan: the change of environment is such an attack on your senses that it starts your creative juices flowing in a big way.
#161 - Experiencing Brain Versus Remembering Brain
How we feel after having drawn is important.
The ‘experiencing’ brain versus the ‘remembering’ brain. While we do something, we ‘experience’ it, but our brain only remembers highlights and the end afterward.
#160 - Try This Next Time In Your Art Supply Store
And you might wind up with the latest amazing drawing tools.
New art supply tools continually arrive on the market. When we find great drawing tools, we tend to hoard them and tell others about them. And so these specific supplies sell out quickly.
#159 - The Meta Way To Copy Artists You Admire - Do Not Copy Their Work, But The WAY They Work
What you actually do need to copy from other artists you admire.
Copying how he works would mean focusing on the things you find fun and are good at and building around that, entering different creative fields, and sailing on the coattails of that skill you have that you are incredibly good at. ‘Doing what he does’ doesn’t mean copying his art style, it means building around things you are naturally good at and enjoy doing.
#158 - What Is Your Sketchbook Metaphor, How Does The Way You Create Compare To How People Do It In Other Disciplines?
It matters for how you practice.
It’s a metaphor for how I use my sketchbook; I collect the beautiful little things I see around me by copying them to my sketchbook.
#157 - The Difference Between An Artbook And A Sketchbook
And which one should you make?
Sketchbooks and artbooks are different. It is helpful to keep both a sketchbook (which you keep private) and an artbook that can be shown to others. In practice, my sketchbooks are artbooks in the front and sketchbooks in the back. No one sees the back.
#156 - I Found The Perfect Hobby For People Who Draw Or Paint!
The perfect companion hobby for people who draw or paint.
You get to walk around a lot, which is healthy. Fresh air and vitamin D. You collect visual material that you can use for your drawings.
#155 - Test-Based Learning For Artists
Insights on how we learn best, and how to apply that to becoming better at drawing.
Scientists have found ways to learn effectively. It boils down to testing yourself first, encoding the information that is not in your brain yet, and repetition.