Your Talents Are Not Important
Morning Sketches APP, images ready to be drawn.
I’ve seen it with children, too. They are not good at a subject at school YET, and they think of themselves as not being good at it and never will be, period.
You get better at something by observing how others do it, trying it yourself, taking a step back, and coolly analyzing the result. Devise a practice plan to improve and set that in motion, keeping it light and fun.
By doing that, you can become good at anything. Maybe not the best. Talent can matter. If you’re not tall, you’ll likely not become the best basketball player, but you can become very good at it by just practicing. You’ll be better than someone who is just tall but who has never practiced.
Don’t let “I am a person who is not good at X” become a part of your identity because then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is sometimes also referred to as a limiting belief. It’s just a story you made up and now believe. It doesn’t have to be true.
You can learn to become proficient at almost anything if you set your mind to it. I’m not talking about manifesting things. I think that is nonsense. But it does require you to believe you can learn the skill, and then going and putting in the effort, and, this is for another article, but for it to be sustainable you need to make sure you enjoy putting in the work.
This Week
Another video showing a randomizable 3D model and me using it as a drawing reference. It’s an experiment. I’d like to know if I can raise awareness for the drawing practice resources I created. It’s still early days, but the videos are not doing badly! The videos don’t receive many views or subscribers, but I do notice a notable increase in newsletter subscribers. I hope these videos work, because I can create them with little effort, and they also require me to draw. I can see myself making many of those.
A daughter of good friends of ours showed us a YouTube short that featured manga facial features, heads, bodies, and dresses at a high pace. You had to pause the video and then work what you saw on screen into your drawing of a Manga character. It was a fun game! And it is also the inspiration for the videos I am now making. You can pause these videos and draw the 3D model on screen. These models rotate slowly and change randomly every four seconds.
Other than that, I am spending some time in my sketchbook using my flashcards, working less on Practice Drawing This, as it can distract me from drawing. As can writing this newsletter. As does writing this sentence. I could be drawing, taking my own advice and putting in the work as per the article above :-) I’m kidding. I do draw a lot.
Anyway, until next week!
Yours sincerely,
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