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#[1]Main RSS Feed
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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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* [5]How to Illustrate
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Planted over 3 years agoLast tended over 3 years ago
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(BUTTON) 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?
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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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called . I have a full post about my drawing equipment and workflows
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over at
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[6]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
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right materials to draw. But that's only the dressing on the drawing
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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
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attention and concern. Focus 70% of your attention on learning the
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medium while you're just starting out.
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You can keep 20% of your focus on the Meat. But I wouldn't worry too
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much about communicating original, profound ideas at first. Doing so in
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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
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trying to write a philosophy dissertation in it.
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Once you get more comfortable “speaking" in visual language, you'll be
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able to shift a much higher percentage of your attention onto the Meat.
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You'll get to focus on The Thing You Want to Say, and know enough
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visual language to say it 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
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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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My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual
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thinking skills
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Tomiwa 😃
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Maggie Appleton - indieweb.social/@maggie
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