Sunday, October 23, 2011

Get in Your Base Mileage!!

Robh Rupple is an amazing artist. His blog (http://broadviewgraphics.blogspot.com/) is amazing. I used to be like "this is so stupid, why did he upload a photograph to his blog. Oh shit... that's not a photograph."



Rob's advice to students...

There is no secrets and there is no shortcuts. I like to use the analogy of bike riding. If you want to be a professional cyclist you have to do your base miles. And you have to ride 100-200 miles a week... before you can even think about technique! Before you can even think about.. you know.. "how can I  improve"? You gotta get that base mileage done!

Same thing for making art. You don't just do a little bit on the weekends.
Everyday you're drawing.
Everyday you're painting.
Everyday you are using the drawing as a process to understand structure.

You know... there are no secrets and there are no shortcuts.  There information is no obscure, it's kind of easy. It's the application, it's having the discipline and the will, and the interest to do it every single day and not get tired. You might get discouraged, but the next day you are gonna wake up and be like "alright - I'm gonna do better, I'm gonna work harder."

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