Why your art is NOT improving 😭 (the science)

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[loogatdisdood]

Your art is improving, mine is getting worse, we are not the same

[spacejunk]

Me: "Oh boy do I feel great this morning! I should work on my drawings!"

Ten hours later: I drew one line

[YamiBaddy]

Hearing "2-3 hours a day" is seriously saving my mental.
Picked up drawing about a month ago and I am pretty tapped out after an hour or two of practicing new stuff.

Hearing how others grind out dozens of poses a day had me absolutely stunned. I am happy when I get one out a day lol.

[joshualot]

DELIBERATE PRACTICE:
1. Learn the theory 5:18
2. Use references 5:36
3. Get Feedback 6:00

[bonitoflakes-kort]

WE'RE MAKING IT OUT OF THE PLATEAU WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🔊🔊🔊

[Chloe-android]

One thing that I have found to be helpful to also keep in mind is that in most cases, you probably are not going to be able to put your nose to the grindstone for 2-4 hours a day as soon as you make the decision to engage in deliberate practice on a consistent basis. As with pretty much anything you want to make into a habit, you will find a lot more success if you start out small. I have found that the pomodoro technique (for every 25 minutes you focus, take a 5 minute break) gives me a really solid frame of reference and helps me divide my time into measurable units that make me feel like I'm collecting exp points each time I finish one. You can start with just one 25 minute session a day (or as short of a session as you need it to be!) and slowly increase that time as you go.

[kag]

Ah yes, gotta love how I'm watching this acting like I haven't stopped trying to get better for like 2 months. I was pretty consistent for a while there but then I made one drawing that I hated and I've not gone back since. The learning process has just become so dull for me, feels like I've been in limbo regardless if I practice the same things or try to learn something new, nothing really sticks in my mind

[peterperng]

recently I start to pick up my wacom again to start become serious about my art career, But I found out I have some issue while learning art. I think my art suck, So I learn, But after I study I will doubting myself that "am I actually learning?" "How is this study gonna help me? " "am I learning the 'right way' ? " and it make me become so frustrated and depress, until somebody point out my issue was keep studying but didnt draw any artwork to see how much I improve/what weakness I have. And from that day somehow the feeling of frustration and depress have disappear and I'm been enjoying drawing ever since.

Moral of my story: Dont kept studying just to be better, you need to actually draw a piece of artwork to output the knowledge you had learned and see how much you need to learn.

[Art_Wine_And_Anarchy]

When I started teaching Chinese painting, the most common question I got was, "How long does it take to reach your level?" I started answering that question by bringing my practice papers and showing students my stacks and stacks of paper on which I practiced just one kind of brush stroke hundreds of times. Then I would say, "The time it takes is less important than how you use it."

[xPXGx]

Marc is spitting truth here. The secret to improvement isn't doing what you're already comfortable with. It's acknowledging what your weakness is, observing and deconstructing other people's process and then challenging yourself by applying that knowledge.

I can speak from personal experience. I can definitely see a noticeable improvement in my work in a pretty short amount of time. I've been pushing myself to do more dynamic poses, implement a better sense of dimension and volume to my subjects and, most of all, forcing myself to COLOR. I hate coloring. I think I'm terrible at it. But I've been forcing myself to color and push my color ranges as much as possible. I'm actually quite proud of myself, which is pretty rare for me.

[AtomicKepler]

I guess that explains why I made so much progress in 3 weeks, because I was always going out of my comfort zone, doing lots of anatomy studies, and literally *drawing for 6-8 hours a day* I don't know why but every single step that I take has been giving me mad progress.

[mihaelatrpevski]

I am still so grateful how I managed to improve my drawing body anatomy in males and females just by watching your videos. Not only that but now I have the ability to draw fluid, more detailed poses with no reference at all

[CookieSake]

Nothing like sensei's videos for a boost of inspiration. I'm struggling through a massive art block.

[viser]

You upload, I like. No questions asked 😂.

I always come to this channel for art tutorials because it helps me out a lot with my progress. Looking forward to this video and more 🤟

[cdarklock]

It really comes down to one thing.

Practice what you are bad at.

If your practice looks good, you are practicing the wrong things. Stop practicing those, you already know them. That's how learning literally anything works: do what you are bad at until you are not bad at it anymore. Then go find something else you are bad at.

[nfinitysLmit]

Glad to know there's a 2 hour max out. I been feeling burned out and wanting to draw for hours and not seeing a huge improvement. There's so much to remember it can be overwhelming at times.

[SilentTrip]

I agree with your advice, keep in mind to keep things fun and not get too lost in the studies and perfectionism

[lemmetalkaboutthis]

Studying up to understand what you're struggling to draw is so true tho. By now, when I wanna draw new animals, I study up their skeleton first, and it not only makes it easier to draw proportions, but also to pose them quicker and easier. I get multiple references together, study their components and how they interact, and then filter out the most important parts of them that I can then use as ankers to replicate what I found by myself.
This is important _especially_ in animation - that's advice given by ghibli animators as well - if you don't understand the figure you're depicting, then movement will look janky and weird, bc some part of our brains still understand that "that's not how that should move"; even if we can't articulate it, it would still feel off somehow.
It's a bit of a relief to learn tho that there's a scientifically proven limit on how long it's possible to actually focus up like this, bc I always felt bad and frustrated when I couldn't practice for more than three hours at a time before my brain started going to shit

[Whienzarth]

Ive been really pushing myself in my art. Iv learned im drawing alot more, drawings are taking longer and im paying attention to alot more things.
Its actually becoming alot more mentaly taxing. But also im finding more meanimg in my work.

I hope that shows visually in my work.

[SumiroTatsuya]

My art isn't improving but that's because I haven't practiced in 3 years. This video gets me 1 step closer to maybe starting to think about practicing again. But that's all it takes