I am following a youtube channel these days; Art Prof, to learn art techniques and practice.
The reason I am able to sit through even an hour long tutorial is this woman who is teaching there. The way she explains everything keep you hooked till the end.
I drew this today..
I was practicing charcoal drawing with the help of a tutorial from the same channel using a reference photo of somebody I know (the end result doesn’t look like her at all, as usual)
The art prof said “allow yourself to make mistakes”.
And I felt these words so deeply.
If I compare my first charcoal work that I sketched some months back to this…they don’t even look like they are done by same person.
The reason I allowed myself to make mistakes.
You have to unchain yourself and let go of control you want to exert on yourselves.
Am I making sense??
I dont know.
And then you have to forgive yourself too.
I remember initially I wanted to draw a lily in charcoal and few minutes into the piece I felt I ruined it. I just crumbled the paper. That couldn’t help my anger so I tore it to bits. shredded it with my hands.
Now I let myself make mistakes then I forgive myself and try to correct them.
Things don’t have to be perfect, they cant be.
Thats how life works..
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Exactly!!! We put WAY too much pressure on ourselves. 😊
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we forget how crucial it is to make mistakes. now I know I cant move on until I stop being hard on myself.
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Nobody’s perfect, man. 😃
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True…🙂
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do you remember the boat/rocket drawing??
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Hahaha! Yes, actually I do. That’s a perfect Exhibit A. 😃
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You enjoyed it the most.
Now compare that to the recent drawings 😆😂🤣
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I’d say you’re on a really great trajectory. 😃
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I so am!
Involves making a fool of myself but thats fine..i am.immune to that too 😃
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Eh, is what it is. 😃😃
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You have made perfect sense. Your sentence, “You have to unchain yourself and let go of control you want to exert on yourselves.” Is the key that unlocks the lock on the heavy chains that keeps us from being and doing what we are meant to be and do. Be the artist who finishes the project. When I wrestle with myself, I find those heavy chains on me again. Thanks for the reminder. Keep learning and sharing.
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We cant be control freaks. Letting go is one thing that i finally learned now after making my good share of mistakes. And its made my life so much easier.
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Soar high. 🙂
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Thanks for nominating me its truly an honour. I just need time to get to answer all of the nominations.
Thanks alot again 🙂
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As humans, we have this mistaken idea we have to be perfect in all we say and do. It’s an impossible task to live up to. I love that you are allowing yourself to be human, make mistakes, recognize them, and then go on. That’s the ultimate goal in growing if you ask me. Congratulations.
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Took me 3 full decades on earth to understand this.
There is no end point. No finishing line. Then whats the point of stressing. Took alot to understand.
Thanks 🙂
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Your welcome. It’s something I believe everyone struggles with until the light dawns that we aren’t perfect and can’t be, and on that day, we are really truly free.
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So true. Accepting liberates us in every way 🙂
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There is no perfection?… Did you lost your mirror again? 😀
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Awww… 😆😂
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‘allow yourself to make mistakes’. So true, especially where art is concerned. I started sketching in pen so I would not keep erasing my lines. It has done wonders for my confidence.
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I have seen your work. Its beautiful and different.
Yes the purpose is to gain confidence. Fear stifles the learning process.
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Thank you and so true. It took a lot of emotional work to get here. And the journey continues…….
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🙂 you’re welcome and thanks for stopping by
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This is beautiful. Very nice work. Charcoal is such an amazing medium to work with. So many types of charcoal as well. Keep up the great creativeness.
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Yup. My favourite medium of all. It was very rough sketch you can actually dramatize alot with charcoal thats the beauty of it.
Only for this i used powdered wine and compressed all of them.
It an amazing experience.
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Very nicely done 👍
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Thank you 🙂
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Nice drawing. We have to make mistakes because how else would we learn from them?
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Exactly. Part and parcel of the learning process 🙂 thanks for stopping by
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“allow yourself to make mistakes” True! It is the only way forward.
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Indeed. 🙂
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It’s only being human to make mistakes along the way… It’s called life. We learn valuable lessons from mistakes.
I love the charcoal picture personally. A lot of character. 🙂
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Yup thats how it works. Make mistakes. Learn.move on..
Thank you Beckie 🙂
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Anytime Toots! 🙂
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🙂
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Charcoal is not the easiest thing to work with either…I think if looks great regardless of how close it looks to the actual subject…that’s just what makes it original and yours…my writing instructor told us the same thing…allow yourself to make mistakes..that’s exactly how you learn!
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Exactly. Thats how it is.
Initially i would fret over making it a copy of the reference image now i dont even care as i have just started learning. I can worry about that later when i am somewhere with it.
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Truth lies in current imperfections!
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Indeed 🙂
Thanks for the comment.
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Perfect imperfection …
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Something like that 🙂
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Well said!
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Thank you 🙂
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if we are so cautious of not doing any mistakes then people set high expectations for us. it is so tough to satisfy them afterward. Nowadays i am not so rigid and do lot of mistakes.
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to actually learn something we need to ignore people a little. I show my art to nobody. just a few (2-3) friends and my blog. people here are compassionate.
learn and show everyone the result.
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True:)
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🙂
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I’m not an artist but I want to say something:
There are no ‘mistakes’ in art….If you judge your creativity, you will stifle it; like criticizing a small child, you will stifle their authentic self while you mold them to YOUR will by your judgments.
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I like the way you linked it to the way kids should be raised.
so on point!
thanks 🙂
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Another beautiful drawing.
It took me many years to learn that if we never made mistakes, would we really learn anything?
Bob Ross used to say that we don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
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Bob Ross can call his mistakes happy little accidents..
our mistakes are actually mistakes 😆
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Mistakes are a necessary part of life.
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They definitely are. And it gets so much better when you stop fearing them.
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yessss
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