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yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iueabs7 | iue6use | 1,667,152,509 | 1,667,151,162 | 8 | 7 | Practice making things without judging whether they are good or bad, whether you like them or dislike them. This is an important skill. Here are a few ideas that will help with this: First, people have wildly different taste. You can make a drawing and show it to 10 different people from different parts of your life. Ask them what they like or dislike about it. You will get 10 completely different answers. The only time you will get consistent feedback is if you ask people who were trained by the same teacher (usually part of a class, where people are judging by a learned set of standards). Naturally, many people will disagree with your taste in art. You will sometimes make something that suits your own taste, and other people will dislike it. They will point out flaws that you didn't notice before. Conversely, you will sometimes make things that seem "bad" to you (usually things you do easily and naturally that almost seem like mistakes) and people will appreciate things about them that never occurred to you. You will even find that your own taste in art changes dramatically as you get older. Decades from now, you may look back on something that you made today and fall in love with some aspects of it. There may also be things that you are very proud of today that you look back on as amateurish. There is also a phenomenon that many artists experience where their own art looks "bad" to them because they made it themselves, and they are too close to it. Seeing your own hand in art is a bit like listening to a recording of yourself. You aren't used to seeing yourself in the third person, so there is something unsettling about it at first. You need to get used to seeing your own art and get more comfortable with this feeling. The takeaway is to put less weight on what you, today, think looks good or bad. Realize this is entirely subjective. Instead of judging good or bad, like or dislike, focus on concrete, actionable metrics, based on the specific goals you were trying to achieve. For example: In class A, we are practicing varying the line width. I'm going to draw the same thing 3 times. Each time, I will try to vary the line width more. Do the task, then evaluate if you were successfully able to vary the line width more in drawing 3 than in drawing 1. Don't worry about trying to get every single aspect of every single drawing perfect. Over time, you will gradually do more of what you practice. Remember that nobody is born with the inmate ability to draw the way they want to. It's all practice. So practice practice practice. | Something I tell my students often is to just consider each drawing an experiment. I don’t want 4 perfect drawings every semester, because when you’re learning you’re not going to make perfect drawings. I’m more excited by 50+ unfinished, rough drawings, where I can see progress and learning throughout. I’d suggest thinking of your drawing this way. Continue learning, make mistakes and learn from them, and understand that it’s not going to be perfect, but each time you make an attempt you’re learning something and you’re developing the sensitivity of your motor skills to be able to draw more effectively. | 1 | 1,347 | 1.142857 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iueabs7 | iudkrrb | 1,667,152,509 | 1,667,142,015 | 8 | 5 | Practice making things without judging whether they are good or bad, whether you like them or dislike them. This is an important skill. Here are a few ideas that will help with this: First, people have wildly different taste. You can make a drawing and show it to 10 different people from different parts of your life. Ask them what they like or dislike about it. You will get 10 completely different answers. The only time you will get consistent feedback is if you ask people who were trained by the same teacher (usually part of a class, where people are judging by a learned set of standards). Naturally, many people will disagree with your taste in art. You will sometimes make something that suits your own taste, and other people will dislike it. They will point out flaws that you didn't notice before. Conversely, you will sometimes make things that seem "bad" to you (usually things you do easily and naturally that almost seem like mistakes) and people will appreciate things about them that never occurred to you. You will even find that your own taste in art changes dramatically as you get older. Decades from now, you may look back on something that you made today and fall in love with some aspects of it. There may also be things that you are very proud of today that you look back on as amateurish. There is also a phenomenon that many artists experience where their own art looks "bad" to them because they made it themselves, and they are too close to it. Seeing your own hand in art is a bit like listening to a recording of yourself. You aren't used to seeing yourself in the third person, so there is something unsettling about it at first. You need to get used to seeing your own art and get more comfortable with this feeling. The takeaway is to put less weight on what you, today, think looks good or bad. Realize this is entirely subjective. Instead of judging good or bad, like or dislike, focus on concrete, actionable metrics, based on the specific goals you were trying to achieve. For example: In class A, we are practicing varying the line width. I'm going to draw the same thing 3 times. Each time, I will try to vary the line width more. Do the task, then evaluate if you were successfully able to vary the line width more in drawing 3 than in drawing 1. Don't worry about trying to get every single aspect of every single drawing perfect. Over time, you will gradually do more of what you practice. Remember that nobody is born with the inmate ability to draw the way they want to. It's all practice. So practice practice practice. | A local street poet once said, "you only think it's shit because you made it". For me, this made me realize that a lot of self deprecation is connected to a deeper sense of self deprecation that goes further than art. Realizing this allowed me to identify part of the source of my self deprecation regarding art: I dismiss myself in general so dismissing my own art comes naturally. This way, I can recognize that when I diss my own art, it's a reflection of how I treat myself. I would never tell a friend or even a stranger "that sketch sucks and you might as well give up now", but I tell it to myself all the time. Treating the self with more respect and identifying when you're targeting yourself because the creator is YOU can really help. It's a good practice to reflect: "would I say this to my closest friend?" The answer is usually no! And if it isn't, you may wanna avoid comparing yourself to others as this can cause a lot of feelings of being behind or "not-talented". Your journey is your own and your ability to reflect is as good of a sign that you are always improving. | 1 | 10,494 | 1.6 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iueabs7 | iudhjkc | 1,667,152,509 | 1,667,140,614 | 8 | 4 | Practice making things without judging whether they are good or bad, whether you like them or dislike them. This is an important skill. Here are a few ideas that will help with this: First, people have wildly different taste. You can make a drawing and show it to 10 different people from different parts of your life. Ask them what they like or dislike about it. You will get 10 completely different answers. The only time you will get consistent feedback is if you ask people who were trained by the same teacher (usually part of a class, where people are judging by a learned set of standards). Naturally, many people will disagree with your taste in art. You will sometimes make something that suits your own taste, and other people will dislike it. They will point out flaws that you didn't notice before. Conversely, you will sometimes make things that seem "bad" to you (usually things you do easily and naturally that almost seem like mistakes) and people will appreciate things about them that never occurred to you. You will even find that your own taste in art changes dramatically as you get older. Decades from now, you may look back on something that you made today and fall in love with some aspects of it. There may also be things that you are very proud of today that you look back on as amateurish. There is also a phenomenon that many artists experience where their own art looks "bad" to them because they made it themselves, and they are too close to it. Seeing your own hand in art is a bit like listening to a recording of yourself. You aren't used to seeing yourself in the third person, so there is something unsettling about it at first. You need to get used to seeing your own art and get more comfortable with this feeling. The takeaway is to put less weight on what you, today, think looks good or bad. Realize this is entirely subjective. Instead of judging good or bad, like or dislike, focus on concrete, actionable metrics, based on the specific goals you were trying to achieve. For example: In class A, we are practicing varying the line width. I'm going to draw the same thing 3 times. Each time, I will try to vary the line width more. Do the task, then evaluate if you were successfully able to vary the line width more in drawing 3 than in drawing 1. Don't worry about trying to get every single aspect of every single drawing perfect. Over time, you will gradually do more of what you practice. Remember that nobody is born with the inmate ability to draw the way they want to. It's all practice. So practice practice practice. | Just keep drawing. You’re going to suck for a long time and there’s simply no way to avoid it. Instead of trying to enjoy the end result, you need to make the process enjoyable. So have your favorite music on, pick some cool reference and draw for like an hour a day max so you don’t burn yourself out. Don’t draw anything you don’t care about. Draw the things that made you want to draw in the first place. If you sit there trying to learn the ‘right’ things because that’s what some authority says will make you better, you will burn yourself out. Joy is the only thing that will get you through this. Also draw stuff that is easy for you to draw instead of always ‘challenging yourself’. You need to give yourself some small wins else you will burn yourself out. There will eventually come a point when you feel like your skills are ok enough for you to attempt to draw anything and that’s a really cool feeling. | 1 | 11,895 | 2 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iueabs7 | iudlhwc | 1,667,152,509 | 1,667,142,327 | 8 | 5 | Practice making things without judging whether they are good or bad, whether you like them or dislike them. This is an important skill. Here are a few ideas that will help with this: First, people have wildly different taste. You can make a drawing and show it to 10 different people from different parts of your life. Ask them what they like or dislike about it. You will get 10 completely different answers. The only time you will get consistent feedback is if you ask people who were trained by the same teacher (usually part of a class, where people are judging by a learned set of standards). Naturally, many people will disagree with your taste in art. You will sometimes make something that suits your own taste, and other people will dislike it. They will point out flaws that you didn't notice before. Conversely, you will sometimes make things that seem "bad" to you (usually things you do easily and naturally that almost seem like mistakes) and people will appreciate things about them that never occurred to you. You will even find that your own taste in art changes dramatically as you get older. Decades from now, you may look back on something that you made today and fall in love with some aspects of it. There may also be things that you are very proud of today that you look back on as amateurish. There is also a phenomenon that many artists experience where their own art looks "bad" to them because they made it themselves, and they are too close to it. Seeing your own hand in art is a bit like listening to a recording of yourself. You aren't used to seeing yourself in the third person, so there is something unsettling about it at first. You need to get used to seeing your own art and get more comfortable with this feeling. The takeaway is to put less weight on what you, today, think looks good or bad. Realize this is entirely subjective. Instead of judging good or bad, like or dislike, focus on concrete, actionable metrics, based on the specific goals you were trying to achieve. For example: In class A, we are practicing varying the line width. I'm going to draw the same thing 3 times. Each time, I will try to vary the line width more. Do the task, then evaluate if you were successfully able to vary the line width more in drawing 3 than in drawing 1. Don't worry about trying to get every single aspect of every single drawing perfect. Over time, you will gradually do more of what you practice. Remember that nobody is born with the inmate ability to draw the way they want to. It's all practice. So practice practice practice. | You need to A. Shut out distractions and other artists that you would compare yourself to. Manage your environment so the only time you look at other's work is when it is for something positive. People today are exhausted by how much defense they do from all the information. TV ads, social media, parents, friend groups, etc. Everyone wants something from you and you have to manage yourself before you can give the world a piece. B. Stop unrealistically expecting so much from yourself like you need to be like the masters you are comparing yourself to. Every day is one step and you are not a superhero who can fly. C. If you are overwhelmed by your tasks and failing to do them "well," then you need to STOP and break those tasks down into something easier to digest. Perspective starts with boxes, value starts with shapes or fruit, drawing humans starts with gesture that's like 4 lines. You gotta relax and take it slow or you will burnout and it's gonna be tougher. If these fail or you still have problems, don't infect anyone else cause we are all out here trying to improve. | 1 | 10,182 | 1.6 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iugyw9u | iudkrrb | 1,667,199,431 | 1,667,142,015 | 7 | 5 | i'm reading Atomic Habits and the first thing James Clear says was "Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits" "if you're broke, but save a little bit every month, then you're on the path toward financial freedom, even if you're moving slower than you'd like" its okay to draw bad, if you improve little by little, you'll eventually get there. you can just redraw a good idea when you are much more skilled. Habits and Skills are like compound interest. progress is saved but not shown. | A local street poet once said, "you only think it's shit because you made it". For me, this made me realize that a lot of self deprecation is connected to a deeper sense of self deprecation that goes further than art. Realizing this allowed me to identify part of the source of my self deprecation regarding art: I dismiss myself in general so dismissing my own art comes naturally. This way, I can recognize that when I diss my own art, it's a reflection of how I treat myself. I would never tell a friend or even a stranger "that sketch sucks and you might as well give up now", but I tell it to myself all the time. Treating the self with more respect and identifying when you're targeting yourself because the creator is YOU can really help. It's a good practice to reflect: "would I say this to my closest friend?" The answer is usually no! And if it isn't, you may wanna avoid comparing yourself to others as this can cause a lot of feelings of being behind or "not-talented". Your journey is your own and your ability to reflect is as good of a sign that you are always improving. | 1 | 57,416 | 1.4 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iugnisk | iugyw9u | 1,667,190,287 | 1,667,199,431 | 4 | 7 | Wasn’t it Picasso who had hundreds of his paintings unsold in storage? In a way every artist is their own worst critique. The way I rationalize it many artists don’t even reach mass appeal until post mortem, so I would jog, not sprint. | i'm reading Atomic Habits and the first thing James Clear says was "Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits" "if you're broke, but save a little bit every month, then you're on the path toward financial freedom, even if you're moving slower than you'd like" its okay to draw bad, if you improve little by little, you'll eventually get there. you can just redraw a good idea when you are much more skilled. Habits and Skills are like compound interest. progress is saved but not shown. | 0 | 9,144 | 1.75 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iugyw9u | iudhjkc | 1,667,199,431 | 1,667,140,614 | 7 | 4 | i'm reading Atomic Habits and the first thing James Clear says was "Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits" "if you're broke, but save a little bit every month, then you're on the path toward financial freedom, even if you're moving slower than you'd like" its okay to draw bad, if you improve little by little, you'll eventually get there. you can just redraw a good idea when you are much more skilled. Habits and Skills are like compound interest. progress is saved but not shown. | Just keep drawing. You’re going to suck for a long time and there’s simply no way to avoid it. Instead of trying to enjoy the end result, you need to make the process enjoyable. So have your favorite music on, pick some cool reference and draw for like an hour a day max so you don’t burn yourself out. Don’t draw anything you don’t care about. Draw the things that made you want to draw in the first place. If you sit there trying to learn the ‘right’ things because that’s what some authority says will make you better, you will burn yourself out. Joy is the only thing that will get you through this. Also draw stuff that is easy for you to draw instead of always ‘challenging yourself’. You need to give yourself some small wins else you will burn yourself out. There will eventually come a point when you feel like your skills are ok enough for you to attempt to draw anything and that’s a really cool feeling. | 1 | 58,817 | 1.75 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iudlhwc | iugyw9u | 1,667,142,327 | 1,667,199,431 | 5 | 7 | You need to A. Shut out distractions and other artists that you would compare yourself to. Manage your environment so the only time you look at other's work is when it is for something positive. People today are exhausted by how much defense they do from all the information. TV ads, social media, parents, friend groups, etc. Everyone wants something from you and you have to manage yourself before you can give the world a piece. B. Stop unrealistically expecting so much from yourself like you need to be like the masters you are comparing yourself to. Every day is one step and you are not a superhero who can fly. C. If you are overwhelmed by your tasks and failing to do them "well," then you need to STOP and break those tasks down into something easier to digest. Perspective starts with boxes, value starts with shapes or fruit, drawing humans starts with gesture that's like 4 lines. You gotta relax and take it slow or you will burnout and it's gonna be tougher. If these fail or you still have problems, don't infect anyone else cause we are all out here trying to improve. | i'm reading Atomic Habits and the first thing James Clear says was "Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits" "if you're broke, but save a little bit every month, then you're on the path toward financial freedom, even if you're moving slower than you'd like" its okay to draw bad, if you improve little by little, you'll eventually get there. you can just redraw a good idea when you are much more skilled. Habits and Skills are like compound interest. progress is saved but not shown. | 0 | 57,104 | 1.4 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iugyw9u | iufl75a | 1,667,199,431 | 1,667,171,447 | 7 | 3 | i'm reading Atomic Habits and the first thing James Clear says was "Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits" "if you're broke, but save a little bit every month, then you're on the path toward financial freedom, even if you're moving slower than you'd like" its okay to draw bad, if you improve little by little, you'll eventually get there. you can just redraw a good idea when you are much more skilled. Habits and Skills are like compound interest. progress is saved but not shown. | I have a writers block, if I can change how I have writers block ,you can finish ,your art or how ever you break it down know a finish point, quit some how come back to your mediums. I was using drugs ,in a stupper, just rotten. And spoiled, making calls. I broke down and moved county and two across, starting fresh. | 1 | 27,984 | 2.333333 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iugyw9u | iuft6kr | 1,667,199,431 | 1,667,175,070 | 7 | -1 | i'm reading Atomic Habits and the first thing James Clear says was "Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits" "if you're broke, but save a little bit every month, then you're on the path toward financial freedom, even if you're moving slower than you'd like" its okay to draw bad, if you improve little by little, you'll eventually get there. you can just redraw a good idea when you are much more skilled. Habits and Skills are like compound interest. progress is saved but not shown. | Stop overthinking it. Draw for no other reason to draw. Your life is dependent on your artist skills. | 1 | 24,361 | -7 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iudkrrb | iue6use | 1,667,142,015 | 1,667,151,162 | 5 | 7 | A local street poet once said, "you only think it's shit because you made it". For me, this made me realize that a lot of self deprecation is connected to a deeper sense of self deprecation that goes further than art. Realizing this allowed me to identify part of the source of my self deprecation regarding art: I dismiss myself in general so dismissing my own art comes naturally. This way, I can recognize that when I diss my own art, it's a reflection of how I treat myself. I would never tell a friend or even a stranger "that sketch sucks and you might as well give up now", but I tell it to myself all the time. Treating the self with more respect and identifying when you're targeting yourself because the creator is YOU can really help. It's a good practice to reflect: "would I say this to my closest friend?" The answer is usually no! And if it isn't, you may wanna avoid comparing yourself to others as this can cause a lot of feelings of being behind or "not-talented". Your journey is your own and your ability to reflect is as good of a sign that you are always improving. | Something I tell my students often is to just consider each drawing an experiment. I don’t want 4 perfect drawings every semester, because when you’re learning you’re not going to make perfect drawings. I’m more excited by 50+ unfinished, rough drawings, where I can see progress and learning throughout. I’d suggest thinking of your drawing this way. Continue learning, make mistakes and learn from them, and understand that it’s not going to be perfect, but each time you make an attempt you’re learning something and you’re developing the sensitivity of your motor skills to be able to draw more effectively. | 0 | 9,147 | 1.4 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iue6use | iudhjkc | 1,667,151,162 | 1,667,140,614 | 7 | 4 | Something I tell my students often is to just consider each drawing an experiment. I don’t want 4 perfect drawings every semester, because when you’re learning you’re not going to make perfect drawings. I’m more excited by 50+ unfinished, rough drawings, where I can see progress and learning throughout. I’d suggest thinking of your drawing this way. Continue learning, make mistakes and learn from them, and understand that it’s not going to be perfect, but each time you make an attempt you’re learning something and you’re developing the sensitivity of your motor skills to be able to draw more effectively. | Just keep drawing. You’re going to suck for a long time and there’s simply no way to avoid it. Instead of trying to enjoy the end result, you need to make the process enjoyable. So have your favorite music on, pick some cool reference and draw for like an hour a day max so you don’t burn yourself out. Don’t draw anything you don’t care about. Draw the things that made you want to draw in the first place. If you sit there trying to learn the ‘right’ things because that’s what some authority says will make you better, you will burn yourself out. Joy is the only thing that will get you through this. Also draw stuff that is easy for you to draw instead of always ‘challenging yourself’. You need to give yourself some small wins else you will burn yourself out. There will eventually come a point when you feel like your skills are ok enough for you to attempt to draw anything and that’s a really cool feeling. | 1 | 10,548 | 1.75 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iue6use | iudlhwc | 1,667,151,162 | 1,667,142,327 | 7 | 5 | Something I tell my students often is to just consider each drawing an experiment. I don’t want 4 perfect drawings every semester, because when you’re learning you’re not going to make perfect drawings. I’m more excited by 50+ unfinished, rough drawings, where I can see progress and learning throughout. I’d suggest thinking of your drawing this way. Continue learning, make mistakes and learn from them, and understand that it’s not going to be perfect, but each time you make an attempt you’re learning something and you’re developing the sensitivity of your motor skills to be able to draw more effectively. | You need to A. Shut out distractions and other artists that you would compare yourself to. Manage your environment so the only time you look at other's work is when it is for something positive. People today are exhausted by how much defense they do from all the information. TV ads, social media, parents, friend groups, etc. Everyone wants something from you and you have to manage yourself before you can give the world a piece. B. Stop unrealistically expecting so much from yourself like you need to be like the masters you are comparing yourself to. Every day is one step and you are not a superhero who can fly. C. If you are overwhelmed by your tasks and failing to do them "well," then you need to STOP and break those tasks down into something easier to digest. Perspective starts with boxes, value starts with shapes or fruit, drawing humans starts with gesture that's like 4 lines. You gotta relax and take it slow or you will burnout and it's gonna be tougher. If these fail or you still have problems, don't infect anyone else cause we are all out here trying to improve. | 1 | 8,835 | 1.4 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iudkrrb | iudhjkc | 1,667,142,015 | 1,667,140,614 | 5 | 4 | A local street poet once said, "you only think it's shit because you made it". For me, this made me realize that a lot of self deprecation is connected to a deeper sense of self deprecation that goes further than art. Realizing this allowed me to identify part of the source of my self deprecation regarding art: I dismiss myself in general so dismissing my own art comes naturally. This way, I can recognize that when I diss my own art, it's a reflection of how I treat myself. I would never tell a friend or even a stranger "that sketch sucks and you might as well give up now", but I tell it to myself all the time. Treating the self with more respect and identifying when you're targeting yourself because the creator is YOU can really help. It's a good practice to reflect: "would I say this to my closest friend?" The answer is usually no! And if it isn't, you may wanna avoid comparing yourself to others as this can cause a lot of feelings of being behind or "not-talented". Your journey is your own and your ability to reflect is as good of a sign that you are always improving. | Just keep drawing. You’re going to suck for a long time and there’s simply no way to avoid it. Instead of trying to enjoy the end result, you need to make the process enjoyable. So have your favorite music on, pick some cool reference and draw for like an hour a day max so you don’t burn yourself out. Don’t draw anything you don’t care about. Draw the things that made you want to draw in the first place. If you sit there trying to learn the ‘right’ things because that’s what some authority says will make you better, you will burn yourself out. Joy is the only thing that will get you through this. Also draw stuff that is easy for you to draw instead of always ‘challenging yourself’. You need to give yourself some small wins else you will burn yourself out. There will eventually come a point when you feel like your skills are ok enough for you to attempt to draw anything and that’s a really cool feeling. | 1 | 1,401 | 1.25 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iufl75a | iugnisk | 1,667,171,447 | 1,667,190,287 | 3 | 4 | I have a writers block, if I can change how I have writers block ,you can finish ,your art or how ever you break it down know a finish point, quit some how come back to your mediums. I was using drugs ,in a stupper, just rotten. And spoiled, making calls. I broke down and moved county and two across, starting fresh. | Wasn’t it Picasso who had hundreds of his paintings unsold in storage? In a way every artist is their own worst critique. The way I rationalize it many artists don’t even reach mass appeal until post mortem, so I would jog, not sprint. | 0 | 18,840 | 1.333333 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iugnisk | iuft6kr | 1,667,190,287 | 1,667,175,070 | 4 | -1 | Wasn’t it Picasso who had hundreds of his paintings unsold in storage? In a way every artist is their own worst critique. The way I rationalize it many artists don’t even reach mass appeal until post mortem, so I would jog, not sprint. | Stop overthinking it. Draw for no other reason to draw. Your life is dependent on your artist skills. | 1 | 15,217 | -4 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iudhjkc | iudlhwc | 1,667,140,614 | 1,667,142,327 | 4 | 5 | Just keep drawing. You’re going to suck for a long time and there’s simply no way to avoid it. Instead of trying to enjoy the end result, you need to make the process enjoyable. So have your favorite music on, pick some cool reference and draw for like an hour a day max so you don’t burn yourself out. Don’t draw anything you don’t care about. Draw the things that made you want to draw in the first place. If you sit there trying to learn the ‘right’ things because that’s what some authority says will make you better, you will burn yourself out. Joy is the only thing that will get you through this. Also draw stuff that is easy for you to draw instead of always ‘challenging yourself’. You need to give yourself some small wins else you will burn yourself out. There will eventually come a point when you feel like your skills are ok enough for you to attempt to draw anything and that’s a really cool feeling. | You need to A. Shut out distractions and other artists that you would compare yourself to. Manage your environment so the only time you look at other's work is when it is for something positive. People today are exhausted by how much defense they do from all the information. TV ads, social media, parents, friend groups, etc. Everyone wants something from you and you have to manage yourself before you can give the world a piece. B. Stop unrealistically expecting so much from yourself like you need to be like the masters you are comparing yourself to. Every day is one step and you are not a superhero who can fly. C. If you are overwhelmed by your tasks and failing to do them "well," then you need to STOP and break those tasks down into something easier to digest. Perspective starts with boxes, value starts with shapes or fruit, drawing humans starts with gesture that's like 4 lines. You gotta relax and take it slow or you will burnout and it's gonna be tougher. If these fail or you still have problems, don't infect anyone else cause we are all out here trying to improve. | 0 | 1,713 | 1.25 | ||
yhe89f | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | how to stop self deprecating whenever a drawing doesn't turn out well? This problem has really been plaguing me for the past 4 years, and it really prevents me from getting better in general. Each drawing has to turn out well else, the longer I go at it the chances of me giving up on it just increases exponentially, i came to the conclusion that it wasn't helpful at all long ago, yet i can't get over this no matter how hard i try. (fyi, i do go see a school counsellor.) This has caused a great deal of stagnation in my progress, and it only gets worse because the more i acknowledge how stagnant i am in my progress and seeing others get better and better, just makes me spiral into self deprecation more and more. not only that i have absolutely no idea how to get out of this rut. i would love to hear how you overcame this problem, thanks :D | iulwh18 | iuft6kr | 1,667,298,029 | 1,667,175,070 | 1 | -1 | No two ways about is, everybody goes through this. It will get better, it’s not like you would comparatively be any better at something else when starting out. Art is very personal, and on top of that you see the ”results” instantly in a much more concrete way than in most other things. Like jordan peele said about writing (in a way applies very well to drawing as well), You are just piling sand so you can build sandcastles later | Stop overthinking it. Draw for no other reason to draw. Your life is dependent on your artist skills. | 1 | 122,959 | -1 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxmnlj | ip07alr | 1,663,513,041 | 1,663,549,333 | 1 | 85 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 36,292 | 85 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | ioxmnlj | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,513,041 | 34 | 1 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 24,428 | 34 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioxmnlj | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,513,041 | 24 | 1 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 28,103 | 24 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip1a9hc | ioxmnlj | 1,663,570,829 | 1,663,513,041 | 23 | 1 | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 57,788 | 23 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxvj88 | ioxmnlj | 1,663,516,623 | 1,663,513,041 | 14 | 1 | I actually have, once upon a time, forgotten how to ride a bike, and had to spend some time relearning it. It wasn't like learning it from scratch, but it wasn't second nature. That said, it was when I was a kid, and now-a-days I can go years without riding a bike and still be able to grab one and go. As to your question though, you will get rusty - that's inevitable. How rusty you get depends on where you are in the process - if you're learning and have a few months under your belt and decide to stop for a few years, a lot of what you'd learned will *probably* fade and have to be relearned. Not like starting from scratch, but it'll take some doing still to get back to where you were. If however you've been drawing for years and take a decade off, I'd say - admittedly based on nothing more than my own familiarity with the skill, though never having spent quite so much time away from it, so take it with a grain of salt - you're likely going to retain a lot of the core muscle memory. Will you need to sharpen those skills? Sure - but think of it more as repairing a dull, rusty knife, rather than needing to forge a new one from scratch. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 3,582 | 14 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip04b9c | ioxmnlj | 1,663,548,032 | 1,663,513,041 | 14 | 1 | I'd say it's most like writing. You learn it once and you have it forever, after you have it down you don't really need to practice unless you want it to look better. Everyone's handwriting is pretty bad if they only practiced in preschool, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone's handwriting get worse at all. Hope that makes sense. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 34,991 | 14 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip1w2dd | ioxmnlj | 1,663,587,886 | 1,663,513,041 | 12 | 1 | I think everyone else already contributed so I will add esoteric oblique information to your question but it seems somehow tangential. Do take care of your eyes, especially your dominant eye. I would reckon you keep like 50% of your skill there and if you lost it, it’s like being a carpenter losing their dominant hand, or maybe a pianist and getting your fingers broken. We sort of vaguely know this but it’s not really talked about and the degree of damage to skill it imparts is pretty significant when it comes to realism because of how it effects sense of proportion, square, parallel, generally angles and alignment and thought to muscle control. Source: lost my dominant eye ama | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 74,845 | 12 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioygv2p | ioxmnlj | 1,663,524,709 | 1,663,513,041 | 12 | 1 | I don’t have the artistic drawing experience to say, but Peter Han mentions in his Dynamic Sketching 2 demo on YouTube that it’s not like riding a bike and that you’ll lose the mind/muscle connection without practice. My own judgment says that may be extreme, but probably mostly true. My experience with handwriting/technical drafting tells me that the skill does fall off, but can be re-learned much quicker than the first time. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 11,668 | 12 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyh5as | ioxmnlj | 1,663,524,811 | 1,663,513,041 | 12 | 1 | Bit of both. My ability skyrockets within a few weeks of drawing regularly (at minimum a few hours a day). Conversely, it plummets just as fast. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 11,770 | 12 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip01dgd | ioxmnlj | 1,663,546,712 | 1,663,513,041 | 13 | 1 | Every skill gets rusty over time, even bike riding despite that old saying. That's one of the reasons why consistency is so important, if you're on off with drawing your skills get rusty during those off periods and progress gets much slower. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 33,671 | 13 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip04rs9 | ioxmnlj | 1,663,548,242 | 1,663,513,041 | 12 | 1 | I forget all the time. I haven't been able to learn properly because I seem to forget everything I practice. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 35,201 | 12 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxmnlj | ioz1dwz | 1,663,513,041 | 1,663,532,161 | 1 | 10 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | I don’t know how much this applies to other people but I find that when I spend time away from art, with time and life experiences, i come back an even better artist. Especially when it comes to making a judgement on style, what looks good, etc. I don’t really forget how to handle a pencil and observe a reference and draw from it etc… I’m sure there are some things that suffer from a lack of practice but I’ve never seriously regressed | 0 | 19,120 | 10 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxmnlj | iozbv94 | 1,663,513,041 | 1,663,536,061 | 1 | 11 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | If you don’t use it you lose it. Take it from someone who lost it. | 0 | 23,020 | 11 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyb916 | ioxmnlj | 1,663,522,663 | 1,663,513,041 | 10 | 1 | It’s more playing a sport regularly, but than stopping and letting yourself get out of shape. You will have to ramp back up to get back to your peak performance; but it is possible. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 9,622 | 10 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioy9re8 | ioxmnlj | 1,663,522,117 | 1,663,513,041 | 8 | 1 | it comes back to you. maybe not *quite* as fast as the bike. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 9,076 | 8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyovlj | ioxmnlj | 1,663,527,644 | 1,663,513,041 | 8 | 1 | It depends on how advanced your skills are. The more advanced of an artist you are the more of an impact long breaks will have. But if you're a beginner-intermediate level then there's less of an impact cause you aren't doing incredibly difficult art to begin with. Art is absolutely a perishable skill, the bicycle analogy is horse shit because art really isn't that simple. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 14,603 | 8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozzgqy | ioxmnlj | 1,663,545,862 | 1,663,513,041 | 8 | 1 | From personal experience, you need to continue practicing. I use to think I was a decent illustrator but got busy with work and relationships that I was not drawing as much and now my artwork has suffered | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 32,821 | 8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxmnlj | ioza35q | 1,663,513,041 | 1,663,535,368 | 1 | 7 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | A bit of both. You can definitely accumulate rust, so to speak, but at the same time, drawing is as much an acquired set of sensibilities (knowledge of lighting, anatomy, and etc) as it is your physical skills. | 0 | 22,327 | 7 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyvzjt | ioxmnlj | 1,663,530,217 | 1,663,513,041 | 5 | 1 | Ever try to go back to riding a bike after a few years? Sure, once you remember how gears work, look like a woobly moron at stop signs, and figure out how not to pitch yourself forward by squeezing the front brake on a hill... It's LIKE you never forgot. If you were very experienced at drawing, you'll probably jump right in with relative success... With a bit of practice to jog your memory. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 17,176 | 5 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozdsan | ioxmnlj | 1,663,536,815 | 1,663,513,041 | 5 | 1 | You’ll be faster to get back to form, but there will be a few days where your butt hurts, and you can’t do all your tricks anymore. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 23,774 | 5 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozlx7u | ioxmnlj | 1,663,540,072 | 1,663,513,041 | 6 | 1 | It's more like this. It's both the skill of riding a bike, but also the tool, the bike itself. You still have the basic muscles memory of drawing, but if didn't take care of the tool part it rusts and you have to build it back up. | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 27,031 | 6 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioz8mz3 | ioxmnlj | 1,663,534,823 | 1,663,513,041 | 5 | 1 | It’s probably dependent on the individual but I get paid to draw, and so I get burned out, so I take a break for a while and it’ll take me months to get back to where I was, even after a break of a week or two | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | 1 | 21,782 | 5 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxmnlj | ioygk0a | 1,663,513,041 | 1,663,524,599 | 1 | 3 | **To OP**: Every post on this subreddit is manually approved, once we make sure it adheres to the subreddit rules, the main ones being the following: * That **all posts here must relate drawabox.com** (being either questions or homework submissions). More on that can be found here. * All homework submissions must be complete - **single exercises and partial work is not allowed on the subreddit**, as mentioned in this video from Lesson 0. You can however get feedback on individual exercises on the discord chat server, and the folks there would be happy to help you out. If you find that your post breaks either of these rules, we would recommend deleting your post yourself, and submitting on one of these other more general art communities instead: * /r/learnart or /r/learntodraw if you're looking for feedback on your work * /r/IDAP is good for sharing work you're not looking for feedback on * /r/artistlounge and /r/learnart are good for general questions/discussion Just be sure to read through their own individual submission guidelines before posting. **To those responding**: If you are seeing this post, then it has been approved, and therefore is related to the lessons on drawabox.com. If you are yourself unfamiliar with them, then it's best that you not respond with your own advice, so as not to confuse or mislead OP. Thank you for your cooperation! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/ArtFundamentals) if you have any questions or concerns.* | Depends on how long you stop. You won't forget the fundamentals, but you'll forget your methods, the touch you had with a pencil or brush, the way you created certain effects. But that's not so bad, either. You're a different person now. It makes sense for your art to be different. | 0 | 11,558 | 3 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip07alr | iozfgf9 | 1,663,549,333 | 1,663,537,469 | 85 | 34 | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 1 | 11,864 | 2.5 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ip07alr | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,549,333 | 24 | 85 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 8,189 | 3.541667 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxvj88 | ip07alr | 1,663,516,623 | 1,663,549,333 | 14 | 85 | I actually have, once upon a time, forgotten how to ride a bike, and had to spend some time relearning it. It wasn't like learning it from scratch, but it wasn't second nature. That said, it was when I was a kid, and now-a-days I can go years without riding a bike and still be able to grab one and go. As to your question though, you will get rusty - that's inevitable. How rusty you get depends on where you are in the process - if you're learning and have a few months under your belt and decide to stop for a few years, a lot of what you'd learned will *probably* fade and have to be relearned. Not like starting from scratch, but it'll take some doing still to get back to where you were. If however you've been drawing for years and take a decade off, I'd say - admittedly based on nothing more than my own familiarity with the skill, though never having spent quite so much time away from it, so take it with a grain of salt - you're likely going to retain a lot of the core muscle memory. Will you need to sharpen those skills? Sure - but think of it more as repairing a dull, rusty knife, rather than needing to forge a new one from scratch. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 32,710 | 6.071429 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip04b9c | ip07alr | 1,663,548,032 | 1,663,549,333 | 14 | 85 | I'd say it's most like writing. You learn it once and you have it forever, after you have it down you don't really need to practice unless you want it to look better. Everyone's handwriting is pretty bad if they only practiced in preschool, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone's handwriting get worse at all. Hope that makes sense. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 1,301 | 6.071429 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip07alr | ioygv2p | 1,663,549,333 | 1,663,524,709 | 85 | 12 | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | I don’t have the artistic drawing experience to say, but Peter Han mentions in his Dynamic Sketching 2 demo on YouTube that it’s not like riding a bike and that you’ll lose the mind/muscle connection without practice. My own judgment says that may be extreme, but probably mostly true. My experience with handwriting/technical drafting tells me that the skill does fall off, but can be re-learned much quicker than the first time. | 1 | 24,624 | 7.083333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip07alr | ioyh5as | 1,663,549,333 | 1,663,524,811 | 85 | 12 | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | Bit of both. My ability skyrockets within a few weeks of drawing regularly (at minimum a few hours a day). Conversely, it plummets just as fast. | 1 | 24,522 | 7.083333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip01dgd | ip07alr | 1,663,546,712 | 1,663,549,333 | 13 | 85 | Every skill gets rusty over time, even bike riding despite that old saying. That's one of the reasons why consistency is so important, if you're on off with drawing your skills get rusty during those off periods and progress gets much slower. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 2,621 | 6.538462 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip04rs9 | ip07alr | 1,663,548,242 | 1,663,549,333 | 12 | 85 | I forget all the time. I haven't been able to learn properly because I seem to forget everything I practice. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 1,091 | 7.083333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip07alr | ioz1dwz | 1,663,549,333 | 1,663,532,161 | 85 | 10 | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | I don’t know how much this applies to other people but I find that when I spend time away from art, with time and life experiences, i come back an even better artist. Especially when it comes to making a judgement on style, what looks good, etc. I don’t really forget how to handle a pencil and observe a reference and draw from it etc… I’m sure there are some things that suffer from a lack of practice but I’ve never seriously regressed | 1 | 17,172 | 8.5 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozbv94 | ip07alr | 1,663,536,061 | 1,663,549,333 | 11 | 85 | If you don’t use it you lose it. Take it from someone who lost it. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 13,272 | 7.727273 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyb916 | ip07alr | 1,663,522,663 | 1,663,549,333 | 10 | 85 | It’s more playing a sport regularly, but than stopping and letting yourself get out of shape. You will have to ramp back up to get back to your peak performance; but it is possible. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 26,670 | 8.5 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioy9re8 | ip07alr | 1,663,522,117 | 1,663,549,333 | 8 | 85 | it comes back to you. maybe not *quite* as fast as the bike. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 27,216 | 10.625 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyovlj | ip07alr | 1,663,527,644 | 1,663,549,333 | 8 | 85 | It depends on how advanced your skills are. The more advanced of an artist you are the more of an impact long breaks will have. But if you're a beginner-intermediate level then there's less of an impact cause you aren't doing incredibly difficult art to begin with. Art is absolutely a perishable skill, the bicycle analogy is horse shit because art really isn't that simple. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 21,689 | 10.625 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozzgqy | ip07alr | 1,663,545,862 | 1,663,549,333 | 8 | 85 | From personal experience, you need to continue practicing. I use to think I was a decent illustrator but got busy with work and relationships that I was not drawing as much and now my artwork has suffered | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 3,471 | 10.625 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioza35q | ip07alr | 1,663,535,368 | 1,663,549,333 | 7 | 85 | A bit of both. You can definitely accumulate rust, so to speak, but at the same time, drawing is as much an acquired set of sensibilities (knowledge of lighting, anatomy, and etc) as it is your physical skills. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 13,965 | 12.142857 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyvzjt | ip07alr | 1,663,530,217 | 1,663,549,333 | 5 | 85 | Ever try to go back to riding a bike after a few years? Sure, once you remember how gears work, look like a woobly moron at stop signs, and figure out how not to pitch yourself forward by squeezing the front brake on a hill... It's LIKE you never forgot. If you were very experienced at drawing, you'll probably jump right in with relative success... With a bit of practice to jog your memory. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 19,116 | 17 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozdsan | ip07alr | 1,663,536,815 | 1,663,549,333 | 5 | 85 | You’ll be faster to get back to form, but there will be a few days where your butt hurts, and you can’t do all your tricks anymore. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 12,518 | 17 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozlx7u | ip07alr | 1,663,540,072 | 1,663,549,333 | 6 | 85 | It's more like this. It's both the skill of riding a bike, but also the tool, the bike itself. You still have the basic muscles memory of drawing, but if didn't take care of the tool part it rusts and you have to build it back up. | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | 0 | 9,261 | 14.166667 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip07alr | ioz8mz3 | 1,663,549,333 | 1,663,534,823 | 85 | 5 | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | It’s probably dependent on the individual but I get paid to draw, and so I get burned out, so I take a break for a while and it’ll take me months to get back to where I was, even after a break of a week or two | 1 | 14,510 | 17 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip07alr | ioygk0a | 1,663,549,333 | 1,663,524,599 | 85 | 3 | You don't ever really 'lose it', but you do get rusty. Riding a bike might not be the best analogy, as it's a rather simple, instinctive action that doesn't require extreme attention. Whereas I find drawing/practicing drawing to be pretty attention-demanding. If you have a long space from drawing, what I've noticed is the first few attempts after coming back to it are a bit 'shaky'. The lines feel weaker and you need more warm-ups to feel a flow. But it's not lost - you're not 'worse' than you were permanently. And I don't think you go back to square one. Art is strangely a bit intellectual (although people dumb it down). There's lighting, shadow, perspective, proportions. Even if you're drawing a cartoon, you might be looking at a reference photo. Those parts of your brain that took all that knowledge in were probably bathed in lessons for many, many years. Vs. the simple bike ride tutorial. | Depends on how long you stop. You won't forget the fundamentals, but you'll forget your methods, the touch you had with a pencil or brush, the way you created certain effects. But that's not so bad, either. You're a different person now. It makes sense for your art to be different. | 1 | 24,734 | 28.333333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | ioxvj88 | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,516,623 | 34 | 14 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | I actually have, once upon a time, forgotten how to ride a bike, and had to spend some time relearning it. It wasn't like learning it from scratch, but it wasn't second nature. That said, it was when I was a kid, and now-a-days I can go years without riding a bike and still be able to grab one and go. As to your question though, you will get rusty - that's inevitable. How rusty you get depends on where you are in the process - if you're learning and have a few months under your belt and decide to stop for a few years, a lot of what you'd learned will *probably* fade and have to be relearned. Not like starting from scratch, but it'll take some doing still to get back to where you were. If however you've been drawing for years and take a decade off, I'd say - admittedly based on nothing more than my own familiarity with the skill, though never having spent quite so much time away from it, so take it with a grain of salt - you're likely going to retain a lot of the core muscle memory. Will you need to sharpen those skills? Sure - but think of it more as repairing a dull, rusty knife, rather than needing to forge a new one from scratch. | 1 | 20,846 | 2.428571 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioygv2p | iozfgf9 | 1,663,524,709 | 1,663,537,469 | 12 | 34 | I don’t have the artistic drawing experience to say, but Peter Han mentions in his Dynamic Sketching 2 demo on YouTube that it’s not like riding a bike and that you’ll lose the mind/muscle connection without practice. My own judgment says that may be extreme, but probably mostly true. My experience with handwriting/technical drafting tells me that the skill does fall off, but can be re-learned much quicker than the first time. | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 0 | 12,760 | 2.833333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | ioyh5as | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,524,811 | 34 | 12 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | Bit of both. My ability skyrockets within a few weeks of drawing regularly (at minimum a few hours a day). Conversely, it plummets just as fast. | 1 | 12,658 | 2.833333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioz1dwz | iozfgf9 | 1,663,532,161 | 1,663,537,469 | 10 | 34 | I don’t know how much this applies to other people but I find that when I spend time away from art, with time and life experiences, i come back an even better artist. Especially when it comes to making a judgement on style, what looks good, etc. I don’t really forget how to handle a pencil and observe a reference and draw from it etc… I’m sure there are some things that suffer from a lack of practice but I’ve never seriously regressed | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 0 | 5,308 | 3.4 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | iozbv94 | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,536,061 | 34 | 11 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | If you don’t use it you lose it. Take it from someone who lost it. | 1 | 1,408 | 3.090909 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyb916 | iozfgf9 | 1,663,522,663 | 1,663,537,469 | 10 | 34 | It’s more playing a sport regularly, but than stopping and letting yourself get out of shape. You will have to ramp back up to get back to your peak performance; but it is possible. | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 0 | 14,806 | 3.4 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioy9re8 | iozfgf9 | 1,663,522,117 | 1,663,537,469 | 8 | 34 | it comes back to you. maybe not *quite* as fast as the bike. | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 0 | 15,352 | 4.25 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyovlj | iozfgf9 | 1,663,527,644 | 1,663,537,469 | 8 | 34 | It depends on how advanced your skills are. The more advanced of an artist you are the more of an impact long breaks will have. But if you're a beginner-intermediate level then there's less of an impact cause you aren't doing incredibly difficult art to begin with. Art is absolutely a perishable skill, the bicycle analogy is horse shit because art really isn't that simple. | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 0 | 9,825 | 4.25 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | ioza35q | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,535,368 | 34 | 7 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | A bit of both. You can definitely accumulate rust, so to speak, but at the same time, drawing is as much an acquired set of sensibilities (knowledge of lighting, anatomy, and etc) as it is your physical skills. | 1 | 2,101 | 4.857143 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyvzjt | iozfgf9 | 1,663,530,217 | 1,663,537,469 | 5 | 34 | Ever try to go back to riding a bike after a few years? Sure, once you remember how gears work, look like a woobly moron at stop signs, and figure out how not to pitch yourself forward by squeezing the front brake on a hill... It's LIKE you never forgot. If you were very experienced at drawing, you'll probably jump right in with relative success... With a bit of practice to jog your memory. | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | 0 | 7,252 | 6.8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | iozdsan | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,536,815 | 34 | 5 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | You’ll be faster to get back to form, but there will be a few days where your butt hurts, and you can’t do all your tricks anymore. | 1 | 654 | 6.8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | ioz8mz3 | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,534,823 | 34 | 5 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | It’s probably dependent on the individual but I get paid to draw, and so I get burned out, so I take a break for a while and it’ll take me months to get back to where I was, even after a break of a week or two | 1 | 2,646 | 6.8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozfgf9 | ioygk0a | 1,663,537,469 | 1,663,524,599 | 34 | 3 | It's like playing an instrument or playing a sport. You may not forget the basic skills, but your ability to perform at a higher level will gradually dull over time. Consistent performance, or in this case drawing, is definitely necessary to stay the best you can be and continue bettering your skills! | Depends on how long you stop. You won't forget the fundamentals, but you'll forget your methods, the touch you had with a pencil or brush, the way you created certain effects. But that's not so bad, either. You're a different person now. It makes sense for your art to be different. | 1 | 12,870 | 11.333333 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxvj88 | iozojvf | 1,663,516,623 | 1,663,541,144 | 14 | 24 | I actually have, once upon a time, forgotten how to ride a bike, and had to spend some time relearning it. It wasn't like learning it from scratch, but it wasn't second nature. That said, it was when I was a kid, and now-a-days I can go years without riding a bike and still be able to grab one and go. As to your question though, you will get rusty - that's inevitable. How rusty you get depends on where you are in the process - if you're learning and have a few months under your belt and decide to stop for a few years, a lot of what you'd learned will *probably* fade and have to be relearned. Not like starting from scratch, but it'll take some doing still to get back to where you were. If however you've been drawing for years and take a decade off, I'd say - admittedly based on nothing more than my own familiarity with the skill, though never having spent quite so much time away from it, so take it with a grain of salt - you're likely going to retain a lot of the core muscle memory. Will you need to sharpen those skills? Sure - but think of it more as repairing a dull, rusty knife, rather than needing to forge a new one from scratch. | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | 0 | 24,521 | 1.714286 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioygv2p | iozojvf | 1,663,524,709 | 1,663,541,144 | 12 | 24 | I don’t have the artistic drawing experience to say, but Peter Han mentions in his Dynamic Sketching 2 demo on YouTube that it’s not like riding a bike and that you’ll lose the mind/muscle connection without practice. My own judgment says that may be extreme, but probably mostly true. My experience with handwriting/technical drafting tells me that the skill does fall off, but can be re-learned much quicker than the first time. | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | 0 | 16,435 | 2 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioyh5as | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,524,811 | 24 | 12 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | Bit of both. My ability skyrockets within a few weeks of drawing regularly (at minimum a few hours a day). Conversely, it plummets just as fast. | 1 | 16,333 | 2 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioz1dwz | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,532,161 | 24 | 10 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | I don’t know how much this applies to other people but I find that when I spend time away from art, with time and life experiences, i come back an even better artist. Especially when it comes to making a judgement on style, what looks good, etc. I don’t really forget how to handle a pencil and observe a reference and draw from it etc… I’m sure there are some things that suffer from a lack of practice but I’ve never seriously regressed | 1 | 8,983 | 2.4 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | iozbv94 | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,536,061 | 24 | 11 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | If you don’t use it you lose it. Take it from someone who lost it. | 1 | 5,083 | 2.181818 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioyb916 | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,522,663 | 24 | 10 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | It’s more playing a sport regularly, but than stopping and letting yourself get out of shape. You will have to ramp back up to get back to your peak performance; but it is possible. | 1 | 18,481 | 2.4 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioy9re8 | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,522,117 | 24 | 8 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | it comes back to you. maybe not *quite* as fast as the bike. | 1 | 19,027 | 3 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyovlj | iozojvf | 1,663,527,644 | 1,663,541,144 | 8 | 24 | It depends on how advanced your skills are. The more advanced of an artist you are the more of an impact long breaks will have. But if you're a beginner-intermediate level then there's less of an impact cause you aren't doing incredibly difficult art to begin with. Art is absolutely a perishable skill, the bicycle analogy is horse shit because art really isn't that simple. | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | 0 | 13,500 | 3 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioza35q | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,535,368 | 24 | 7 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | A bit of both. You can definitely accumulate rust, so to speak, but at the same time, drawing is as much an acquired set of sensibilities (knowledge of lighting, anatomy, and etc) as it is your physical skills. | 1 | 5,776 | 3.428571 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioyvzjt | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,530,217 | 24 | 5 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | Ever try to go back to riding a bike after a few years? Sure, once you remember how gears work, look like a woobly moron at stop signs, and figure out how not to pitch yourself forward by squeezing the front brake on a hill... It's LIKE you never forgot. If you were very experienced at drawing, you'll probably jump right in with relative success... With a bit of practice to jog your memory. | 1 | 10,927 | 4.8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozdsan | iozojvf | 1,663,536,815 | 1,663,541,144 | 5 | 24 | You’ll be faster to get back to form, but there will be a few days where your butt hurts, and you can’t do all your tricks anymore. | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | 0 | 4,329 | 4.8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | iozlx7u | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,540,072 | 24 | 6 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | It's more like this. It's both the skill of riding a bike, but also the tool, the bike itself. You still have the basic muscles memory of drawing, but if didn't take care of the tool part it rusts and you have to build it back up. | 1 | 1,072 | 4 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioz8mz3 | iozojvf | 1,663,534,823 | 1,663,541,144 | 5 | 24 | It’s probably dependent on the individual but I get paid to draw, and so I get burned out, so I take a break for a while and it’ll take me months to get back to where I was, even after a break of a week or two | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | 0 | 6,321 | 4.8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozojvf | ioygk0a | 1,663,541,144 | 1,663,524,599 | 24 | 3 | You retain the knowledge and ability, but sometimes the execution gets a little rusty. I only have time to draw and get inspired once every couple of months. I use coloured pencils. Usually the first area that I start to colour goes wrong. I start with the wrong shade, or press too hard too early, etc. Then suddenly it’s like muscle memory takes over and it just flows from there. | Depends on how long you stop. You won't forget the fundamentals, but you'll forget your methods, the touch you had with a pencil or brush, the way you created certain effects. But that's not so bad, either. You're a different person now. It makes sense for your art to be different. | 1 | 16,545 | 8 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioxvj88 | ip1a9hc | 1,663,516,623 | 1,663,570,829 | 14 | 23 | I actually have, once upon a time, forgotten how to ride a bike, and had to spend some time relearning it. It wasn't like learning it from scratch, but it wasn't second nature. That said, it was when I was a kid, and now-a-days I can go years without riding a bike and still be able to grab one and go. As to your question though, you will get rusty - that's inevitable. How rusty you get depends on where you are in the process - if you're learning and have a few months under your belt and decide to stop for a few years, a lot of what you'd learned will *probably* fade and have to be relearned. Not like starting from scratch, but it'll take some doing still to get back to where you were. If however you've been drawing for years and take a decade off, I'd say - admittedly based on nothing more than my own familiarity with the skill, though never having spent quite so much time away from it, so take it with a grain of salt - you're likely going to retain a lot of the core muscle memory. Will you need to sharpen those skills? Sure - but think of it more as repairing a dull, rusty knife, rather than needing to forge a new one from scratch. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 54,206 | 1.642857 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip04b9c | ip1a9hc | 1,663,548,032 | 1,663,570,829 | 14 | 23 | I'd say it's most like writing. You learn it once and you have it forever, after you have it down you don't really need to practice unless you want it to look better. Everyone's handwriting is pretty bad if they only practiced in preschool, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone's handwriting get worse at all. Hope that makes sense. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 22,797 | 1.642857 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip1a9hc | ioygv2p | 1,663,570,829 | 1,663,524,709 | 23 | 12 | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | I don’t have the artistic drawing experience to say, but Peter Han mentions in his Dynamic Sketching 2 demo on YouTube that it’s not like riding a bike and that you’ll lose the mind/muscle connection without practice. My own judgment says that may be extreme, but probably mostly true. My experience with handwriting/technical drafting tells me that the skill does fall off, but can be re-learned much quicker than the first time. | 1 | 46,120 | 1.916667 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyh5as | ip1a9hc | 1,663,524,811 | 1,663,570,829 | 12 | 23 | Bit of both. My ability skyrockets within a few weeks of drawing regularly (at minimum a few hours a day). Conversely, it plummets just as fast. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 46,018 | 1.916667 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip01dgd | ip1a9hc | 1,663,546,712 | 1,663,570,829 | 13 | 23 | Every skill gets rusty over time, even bike riding despite that old saying. That's one of the reasons why consistency is so important, if you're on off with drawing your skills get rusty during those off periods and progress gets much slower. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 24,117 | 1.769231 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip04rs9 | ip1a9hc | 1,663,548,242 | 1,663,570,829 | 12 | 23 | I forget all the time. I haven't been able to learn properly because I seem to forget everything I practice. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 22,587 | 1.916667 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioz1dwz | ip1a9hc | 1,663,532,161 | 1,663,570,829 | 10 | 23 | I don’t know how much this applies to other people but I find that when I spend time away from art, with time and life experiences, i come back an even better artist. Especially when it comes to making a judgement on style, what looks good, etc. I don’t really forget how to handle a pencil and observe a reference and draw from it etc… I’m sure there are some things that suffer from a lack of practice but I’ve never seriously regressed | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 38,668 | 2.3 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip1a9hc | iozbv94 | 1,663,570,829 | 1,663,536,061 | 23 | 11 | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | If you don’t use it you lose it. Take it from someone who lost it. | 1 | 34,768 | 2.090909 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ip1a9hc | ioyb916 | 1,663,570,829 | 1,663,522,663 | 23 | 10 | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | It’s more playing a sport regularly, but than stopping and letting yourself get out of shape. You will have to ramp back up to get back to your peak performance; but it is possible. | 1 | 48,166 | 2.3 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioy9re8 | ip1a9hc | 1,663,522,117 | 1,663,570,829 | 8 | 23 | it comes back to you. maybe not *quite* as fast as the bike. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 48,712 | 2.875 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | ioyovlj | ip1a9hc | 1,663,527,644 | 1,663,570,829 | 8 | 23 | It depends on how advanced your skills are. The more advanced of an artist you are the more of an impact long breaks will have. But if you're a beginner-intermediate level then there's less of an impact cause you aren't doing incredibly difficult art to begin with. Art is absolutely a perishable skill, the bicycle analogy is horse shit because art really isn't that simple. | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 43,185 | 2.875 | ||
xhiu6o | artfundamentals_train | 0.99 | Are drawing skills like "riding a bike", once you know how to do it you never forget? Or do you have to continue practicing to not lose your skill? | iozzgqy | ip1a9hc | 1,663,545,862 | 1,663,570,829 | 8 | 23 | From personal experience, you need to continue practicing. I use to think I was a decent illustrator but got busy with work and relationships that I was not drawing as much and now my artwork has suffered | From watching Kim Jung gi draw and the fact that he finds it difficult to draw anime characters. I suspect drawing skill is really all about drawing reality and then playing with it. So yes drawing can be like riding a bike if you understand that drawing is drawing what you see. So you want the skill to draw, draw that tree in front of your house, draw your foot draw anything that you see. And when you are good at that you can learn tricks and techniques Just with a bike you can learn to just ride it or you can learn more and drift and jump with it | 0 | 24,967 | 2.875 |
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