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1 [1]Home 2 The Garden 3 [3]Now 4 [4]About 5 Essays 6 7 budding 8 9 Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw 10 11 The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat 12 13 • [6]How to Illustrate 14 15 Planted over 3 years agoLast tended over 3 years ago 16 Back To Top 17 Assumed Audience 18 19 Anyone who thinks they can't draw, but would like to learn 20 21 They message me a lot. 22 23 Which iPad should I buy? What app do you use? What brush is that? What size 24 should my canvas be? 25 26 These questions aren't wrong. In fact they're perfectly reasonable. 27 28 I'm vocal about the fact many of my illustrations are made on in an app called 29 . I have a full post about my drawing equipment and workflows over at 30 [8]What App is That? 31 32 How are you supposed to draw if you don't also have these fancy tools? 33 34 This is the tricky bit. 35 36 If you go out and buy yourself these same things, you'll have all the right 37 materials to draw. But that's only the dressing on the drawing dish. 38 39 [9] 40 41 What you have is Material without the Medium or the Meat 42 43 What on earth do I mean by material, medium, and meat? 44 45 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 46 [10] 47 48 Moving past materials 49 50 Worrying about the materials should take up - at most - 10% of your attention 51 and concern. Focus 70% of your attention on learning the medium while you're 52 just starting out. 53 54 You can keep 20% of your focus on the Meat. But I wouldn't worry too much about 55 communicating original, profound ideas at first. Doing so in addition to 56 learning a whole new language is going to be overwhelming. 57 58 In the same way it's a bad idea to learn Spanish while simultaneously trying to 59 write a philosophy dissertation in it. 60 61 Once you get more comfortable “speaking" in visual language, you'll be able to 62 shift a much higher percentage of your attention onto the Meat. You'll get to 63 focus on The Thing You Want to Say, and know enough visual language to say it 64 well. 65 66 That's the ideal I'm currently striving for. To reach a point where the 67 Material is irrelevant, the Medium is a baked into my subconscious, and I'm all 68 about the Meat. 69 70 That's the goal. Don't let the shiny iPad reflection blind you. 71 72 Get past picking the Material. Focus on the Medium. Aim for the Meat. 73 74 Want to share?Tell Twitter About It 75 76 1 Backlinks 77 78 The Best Illustration Books and Courses 79 80 My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking 81 skills 82 83 Mentions around the web 84 85 Tomiwa 😃 86 Maggie Appleton - indieweb.social/@maggie 87 2 Likes and Retweets 88 89 Want to stay up to date? 90 91 Subscribe via RSS Feed 92 [13][14][15][16][17] 93 © 2024 Maggie Appleton 94 95 • [18]The Garden 96 • [19]Essays 97 • [20]About 98 • [21]Notes 99 • [22]Now 100 • [23]Patterns 101 • [24]Library 102 • [25]Projects 103 • [26]Colophon 104 105 106 References: 107 108 [1] https://maggieappleton.com/ 109 [3] https://maggieappleton.com/now 110 [4] https://maggieappleton.com/about 111 [6] https://maggieappleton.com/topics/how-to-illustrate 112 [8] https://maggieappleton.com/apps 113 [9] https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw#what-you-have-is-material-without-the-medium-or-the-meat 114 [10] https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw#moving-past-materials 115 [13] https://github.com/MaggieAppleton 116 [14] https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maggieappleton 117 [15] https://dribbble.com/mappleton 118 [16] https://twitter.com/Mappletons 119 [17] https://indieweb.social/@maggie 120 [18] https://maggieappleton.com/garden 121 [19] https://maggieappleton.com/essays 122 [20] https://maggieappleton.com/about 123 [21] https://maggieappleton.com/notes 124 [22] https://maggieappleton.com/now 125 [23] https://maggieappleton.com/patterns 126 [24] https://maggieappleton.com/library 127 [25] https://maggieappleton.com/projects 128 [26] https://maggieappleton.com/colophon