I feel the need to say this because a couple folks cite me as an inspiration to start drawing and I just heard a way of phrasing it that helped me articulate it:
"Draw every day" is bad art advice.
It's bad because it's incomplete. It's possible to draw on a consistent schedule that is not daily and improve far faster than someone who is drawing every day. The thing that's missing is the need to put together a study plan to consciously and intentionally address the areas and concepts in which you are wanting to improve.
@LianSirenia I'm still just doing this for fun. I like having something where I can turn on music and tune everything out for a few hours. Honestly, I really needed something like this in my life.
I have zero expectations in anything other some feedback on how I can do it better next time since I'm going to put the effort in either way.
@NumbersCanBeFun that is completely valid~! Honestly I love doing that too. The purpose of this post was just to catch those that might have found themselves stepping into that trap because it's remarkably common for such folks to practice a lot and not see improvement. Thus I hope I could save at least a couple people such headaches in that regard, hehe~
@LianSirenia I've been there before with the piano. It's really hard to learn piano and playing it every day poorly also pisses your neighbors off a lot :neocat_laugh_sweat:
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