local anon · 3mo
It must have been on your website but I may paraphrase it a lot. I will try to word it as closely as I remember: "if your art doesn't change, you're not changing anything about the way you draw" or something along these lines.
Oh! Yes, I remember now, thank you.
My advice was along the lines of if you're practicing/studying at art but nothing is changing, that means the way you're drawing isn't changing, you're simply repeating the process and passively waiting for the improvement to happen.
Artistic improvement has to be an active, engaged process where you're constantly evaluated, analyzing, and experimenting with your results. Improvement isn't a passive level up like an RPG grind, it takes cultivating an attentive relationship with your own process. Working hard doesn't mean you're growing, it just means you work hard.
My philosophy on this hasn't changed at all. I think I edited out of my About page because I felt the wording was clunky and I wanted the general advice to be more streamlined.
