To know more

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures. Jerome S. Bruner "The Culture of Education"

Understanding & patience

I've been drawing nearly every day for about 3 months and decided to get myself some Letraset Promarkers as a little encouragement present. I discovered them via Regina Shafir's gorgeous and fun illustrations of her trip to Paris. Once they arrived I attempted to draw a witch picture for my friend to use as her profile image, only to discover she wanted something more glamorous. So I traced and changed and experimented with various colours and traced again until I achieved the image that my friend was happy with.

However, during the process of retracing the features got changed unintentionally to the less pleasing ones and I can still see few other ways to improve it. I decided to stop working on it for now, but maybe one day I'll attempt again to make something more satisfying to myself. In the process I got a better understanding of the steps and potential numerous reworkings that the illustrators and artist may go through to arrive to the final drawing/image/picture that they are happy with. I feel frustrated at being unable to put on paper what I have inside my head, but at the same time with the greater understanding comes patience towards myself and my pace of learning.

Quotable Sunday

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"

Begin

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe.