A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.(― Salvador Dali)

Keep it Simple

Keep it Interesting

Figure

Photo Portrait

Landscape

Weekend Watchlist:

Cognitive Bias Drawing Hack:

One difference of watercolor painting compared to Oil or Acrylic, is it’s unforgiving nature. You want your first stroke to be your best stroke because the paper and medium will punish you for overworking it.

A mentor of mine mentioned how this could make one timid, scared of ruining expensive watercolor paper. The solution? Buy in bulk. Even though 300lb watercolor paper is expensive, having a bunch of spare sheets in your closet helps you to be more confident in your work. This reflects some flavor of the ‘scarcity bias’.

I find this same timidity on the first page of a new sketchbook. I don’t want someone to open the cover and first drawing they see to be garbage! This kind of artificial pressure can affect your drawing, both external and internal. If you notice it in your work, here is what I recommend: newsprint.

Nobody every framed newsprint (mostly;)

Newsprint is cheap and abundant.

You can fit a lot of drawing on one page of newsprint.

This little hack helps take the pressure off results and lets you focus on process, putting in the reps with out worrying about ‘is the drawing good enough.’

In the end, the math behind how good of an artist you can be is very simple: there is a direct proportional relationship between the strength of your skill and how many pen & pencils you have worn out!

Daily Sktchr’s Review of the Day: