Jan '17

Hi All,
New user to Cubebrush here,

I find myself with a lot of free time for the next couple of months or so, I am looking to use that time to hunker down and increase my knowledge and technical skills of art. I don't consider myself to be a particularly bad artist, but it can always be better.

I want to optimise my time to be smart and efficient in my efforts to try and maximise artistic skill growth.

What are the things I should be thinking about everyday while creating?
What things should I be drawing everyday?
What topics can be really beneficial to look into and learn?
What daily art regiment is most efficient in quality and skill production?

No one became great overnight, but they can always make the best of their time.

Jan '17

These kinds of questions, will get a lot of mix answers, because A ) No one knows you better than yourself , B ) We can only share our own experience.

So instead of doing that, I will ask you a couple of questions for you to answer and think about :
What do you want to learn? What are you interested in right now? How do you learn?

Those are the questions I ask myself for learning anything in any given creative pursuit.

So yeah, instead of asking these questions, ask yourself the questions you are asking here, it's when you have a bigger picture (the what), that you can figure out the why you doing it and how you going to do it.

You are much more capable than you think you are, so do some reflection :wink:

If you interested into two articles about learning ,
http://artofdmitri.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-i-practice.html
http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/effective-practice

Jan '17

Thank you, both of those were quite insightful to read.
They bring good points to light about conceptions of practice and what it is, and what it looks like.
I've always found the thought of what makes a method of practice good to be interesting, a philosophical puzzle to mull around the mind.

I feel I, like many others, have fallen into the trap of thinking practice must be long, it must be boring, if it's not painful it's not real practice.

If I take anything away from your response, it would be to think about not what or the amount of time I am practicing, but how I am practicing.

-Thanks