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+Why You Own an iPad and Still Can't Draw
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+   The failure of drawing materials without mediums and meat
+     * [5]How to Illustrate
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+   Assumed Audience
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+   Anyone who thinks they can't draw, but would like to learn
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+   They message me a lot.
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+     Which iPad should I buy? What app do you use? What brush is that?
+     What size should my canvas be?
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+   These questions aren't wrong. In fact they're perfectly reasonable.
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+   I'm vocal about the fact many of my illustrations are made on in an app
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+   How are you supposed to draw if you don't also have these fancy tools?
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+   This is the tricky bit.
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+   If you go out and buy yourself these same things, you'll have all the
+   right materials to draw. But that's only the dressing on the drawing
+   dish.
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+What you have is Material without the Medium or the Meat
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+   What on earth do I mean by material, medium, and meat?
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+Moving past materials
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+   Worrying about the materials should take up - at most - 10% of your
+   attention and concern. Focus 70% of your attention on learning the
+   medium while you're just starting out.
+
+   You can keep 20% of your focus on the Meat. But I wouldn't worry too
+   much about communicating original, profound ideas at first. Doing so in
+   addition to learning a whole new language is going to be overwhelming.
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+   In the same way it's a bad idea to learn Spanish while simultaneously
+   trying to write a philosophy dissertation in it.
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+   Once you get more comfortable “speaking" in visual language, you'll be
+   able to shift a much higher percentage of your attention onto the Meat.
+   You'll get to focus on The Thing You Want to Say, and know enough
+   visual language to say it well.
+
+   That's the ideal I'm currently striving for. To reach a point where the
+   Material is irrelevant, the Medium is a baked into my subconscious, and
+   I'm all about the Meat.
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+   That's the goal. Don't let the shiny iPad reflection blind you.
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+   Get past picking the Material. Focus on the Medium. Aim for the Meat.
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