Letter From a Frustrated Artist – Draftsmen S1E11
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About instructors
Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
I Teach Creatives
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Stan gets an email from a frustrated student and forwards it to Marshall. Marshall gets obsessed with it spending days and days pondering the issue! This leads to discussions on mastery, overcoming frustration, and how having a negative attitude hurts your progression. A listener makes the draftsmen choose between technical prowess or art that evokes emotion. Blackwing pencils definitely does not sponsor this episode, but hopefully will in the future 😉
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Referenced Artists/Works:
Psychology of Performance - Great Courses
Bob Mankoff
Alan Moore
Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin
Mastery by Robert Greene
Mastery by George Leonard
John Singer Sargent
An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists by W Ellenberger
Rafael's Art
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What do you do if you’ve spent 10 years practicing, but still don’t like your art? Marshall and I try to help a listener
what if you are getting broke day by day and part time job you do is already a big obstacle to your college study and arts study both inclusive, any help would be appreciated, thanks:)
the podcast about a pregnant man
if you never experienced something like that, it means one might haven't gone far enough. It's not healthy of course but at same time this is a sign that person is motivated and connected enough that the time they devote matters to them and are looking forward to make great things in life. I am experiencing this, have from day 1, but now when I think about it, those crash outs were important to figure out somethings, I think these things help to face and accept your failures or things you lack in, and all you have to do from there is work on your weaknesses.
I haven't spent 10 year practicing for 3 hours a day. But I did realise that being focused on what I produce and hating the process was not healthy for me or useful. So, through a variety of personal ways (happy to go into it via DMs but its long winded) I have learned to like the process and hopefully will love the process soon. And... because I like the process I also like what I produce more.
