Anonymous asked:
3mangos answered:
Talent isn’t real. While I appreciate the kind message, I didn’t work as hard as I did all these years just so people could call me a “natural” or “talented”. There’s skill and experience, both of which can be built upon by anybody.
If you want to make something of yourself, it all starts with your attitude and willpower.
I really don’t like it when people say I am so lucky i can draw, or that I am so lucky that people like or want to buy my art. I’ve worked hard since I was little, learning and re-learning all kinds of skills and going through style shifts.
After basically dropping drawing for almost three years, it took a lot of hard work for me to get where I am at this past year. My first sketches when I started drawing again were wonky and off and weird and looked bad…. but i sprunge tutorial after tutorial and try new things ALL THE TIME. I am totally self taught.
I make it my goal to draw something, even if it is little EVERY DAY. Its time and devotion and learning to be critical of your own art without putting yourself down. Look at your work in earnest, and pick something that you want to improve on. Practice. Study. The more I draw, the better I keep getting.
A pencil doesn’t just leap into my fingers and draw something for me. I have to sit down and work at it and redraw things a million times.
