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[1]Home
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The Garden
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[3]Now
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[4]About
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Essays
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budding
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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
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• [6]How to Illustrate
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Planted over 3 years agoLast tended over 3 years ago
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Back To Top
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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
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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 called
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. I have a full post about my drawing equipment and workflows over at
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[8]What App is That?
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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
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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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[10]
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Moving past materials
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Worrying about the materials should take up - at most - 10% of your attention
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and concern. Focus 70% of your attention on learning the medium while you're
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just starting out.
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You can keep 20% of your focus on the Meat. But I wouldn't worry too much about
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communicating original, profound ideas at first. Doing so in addition to
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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
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write a philosophy dissertation in it.
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Once you get more comfortable “speaking" in visual language, you'll be able to
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shift a much higher percentage of your attention onto the Meat. You'll get to
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focus on The Thing You Want to Say, and know enough visual language to say it
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well.
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That's the ideal I'm currently striving for. To reach a point where the
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Material is irrelevant, the Medium is a baked into my subconscious, and I'm all
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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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1 Backlinks
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The Best Illustration Books and Courses
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My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking
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skills
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Mentions around the web
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Tomiwa 😃
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Maggie Appleton - indieweb.social/@maggie
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© 2024 Maggie Appleton
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• [18]The Garden
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• [19]Essays
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• [20]About
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• [21]Notes
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• [22]Now
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• [23]Patterns
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• [24]Library
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• [25]Projects
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• [26]Colophon
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References:
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[1] https://maggieappleton.com/
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[3] https://maggieappleton.com/now
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[4] https://maggieappleton.com/about
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[6] https://maggieappleton.com/topics/how-to-illustrate
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[8] https://maggieappleton.com/apps
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[9] https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw#what-you-have-is-material-without-the-medium-or-the-meat
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[10] https://maggieappleton.com/still-cant-draw#moving-past-materials
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[13] https://github.com/MaggieAppleton
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[14] https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maggieappleton
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[15] https://dribbble.com/mappleton
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[16] https://twitter.com/Mappletons
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[17] https://indieweb.social/@maggie
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[18] https://maggieappleton.com/garden
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[19] https://maggieappleton.com/essays
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[20] https://maggieappleton.com/about
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[21] https://maggieappleton.com/notes
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[22] https://maggieappleton.com/now
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[23] https://maggieappleton.com/patterns
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[24] https://maggieappleton.com/library
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[25] https://maggieappleton.com/projects
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[26] https://maggieappleton.com/colophon
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