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Finally hit drawing #500 in my sketchbook, all of them garbage
I started keeping a count on the inside cover of this cheap spiral notebook back in January, just to see how many bad sketches I could force out before giving up. Last night I crossed 500, and every single one looks like a melted raccoon fought a plate of spaghetti. Does anyone else track their crap drawings like a twisted scoreboard, or am I just building a shrine to my own lack of talent?
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cole_mitchell81mo ago
Wait, do you actually think the melted raccoon stuff is a bad thing? Because that's the phase where your hand is learning stuff your brain can't explain yet, and 500 sketches in one notebook is a wild amount of practice. The number isn't a scoreboard of talent, it's more like proof you showed up over and over, which most people never do. I've got a stack of index cards from last year that are mostly crooked hands and faces that look like potatoes, and flipping through them now, the early ones are way worse than the later ones. You probably can't see it yet because you're too close to your own stuff. Go back and look at sketch 50 next to sketch 450 and tell me there's no difference.
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