Wasting supplies is all about learning that practice is important to improve skill, and perfection is a barrier to that. If I didn’t walk out of a drawing class with 20+ drawings I was doing something wrong (not 20 good drawings, that would include warm up exercises and stuff that was just crap. I’d be happy if I got one good one).
Art (at least the kind most people do) is largely a kinaesthetic skill. That people have physical quirks as part of that isn’t surprising. It takes time to learn how to avoid wasted effort when creating.
Art won’t save the world, it will just make living in it tolerable.
Photography shows you what’s there, drawing shows you how you see.
The great paintings pretty much died after photography came along. There’s no inherent point in doing something a machine can do better. That being said, doing something by hand can be a reason. Representational work is very niche in the art world. It’s generally considered the realm of craft (at best) and often held in contempt (because the art world is a pack of snobs that seem fixated on ugliness as a virtue).
The easiest way to improve your drawing is by extending your fundamental skills. The fastest way to do that is to make you stand up and work at an easel, use larger paper, step back and extend your arm straight, hold the implement like a scalpel rather than a writing pen, and fix your wrist and elbow so that the majority of the movement has to come from your shoulder. Using a knife to sharpen your pencil will help, using something less precise like charcoal or a graphite stick will help more. This is about teaching your body that drawing isn’t writing.
Wasting supplies is all about learning that practice is important to improve skill, and perfection is a barrier to that. If I didn’t walk out of a drawing class with 20+ drawings I was doing something wrong (not 20 good drawings, that would include warm up exercises and stuff that was just crap. I’d be happy if I got one good one).
Art (at least the kind most people do) is largely a kinaesthetic skill. That people have physical quirks as part of that isn’t surprising. It takes time to learn how to avoid wasted effort when creating.
Art won’t save the world, it will just make living in it tolerable.
Photography shows you what’s there, drawing shows you how you see.
The great paintings pretty much died after photography came along. There’s no inherent point in doing something a machine can do better. That being said, doing something by hand can be a reason. Representational work is very niche in the art world. It’s generally considered the realm of craft (at best) and often held in contempt (because the art world is a pack of snobs that seem fixated on ugliness as a virtue).
The easiest way to improve your drawing is by extending your fundamental skills. The fastest way to do that is to make you stand up and work at an easel, use larger paper, step back and extend your arm straight, hold the implement like a scalpel rather than a writing pen, and fix your wrist and elbow so that the majority of the movement has to come from your shoulder. Using a knife to sharpen your pencil will help, using something less precise like charcoal or a graphite stick will help more. This is about teaching your body that drawing isn’t writing.