Dry_Oak

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  • Sharing the Knowledge
    4:31 AM, Tuesday February 4th 2025

    The advice makes sense. I know I'm going to burn out if I don't plan things, but I think I am able to draw on some tiny bit time for warm ups. While the progress is slow, the warm ups are important where I am currently at. I'll progress the lesson as little by little, and I think this is a good way to learn patience.

    6:27 AM, Monday February 3rd 2025

    I agree with this one. Everyone's time and experience is different, the defining point is diligence and consistency. I recommend developing the mindset of this as you go.

    But if you need something tangible like blocking time, checking when you have free time, etc. Google calendar or journaling can help. A book by Ryder Carroll called "The Bullet Journal method" can handhold you till it becomes second nature. He also has a YouTube channel explaining the basics.

    I wish you have a wonderful time in this Drawabox Journey

    • Oak
    4:05 AM, Thursday January 16th 2025

    Thank you for the critique it helped me quite a lot, I'll try to do the old exercises as much as I can before drawing some pieces. Although I am curious since I'm done with the old exercises can I mix and match the exercises? An example would be combining Rotates boxes exercise with Ellipses in planes exercise. Although the only thing I would keep in tact is the superimposed exercise because it will greatly help with accuracy of my line art.

    I've also did my 50 percent, I just don't share them.

    Thank you for giving me a critique, this will help me a lot in the future

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    5:41 AM, Friday December 13th 2024

    Your reply reminded me that I read a book by Kimon Nicolaides called "natural way of drawing". Some part of it was about contours and shadings it helped me perceive my imagination as if it's tangible in a tactile way. It's fun, but I don't recommend the book as a fundemental for drawing because it sounds woo woo magic. It makes you rely in your intuition rather than a set of rules or steps to draw something consistent.

    I actually haven't finished the book, I think I only reached at page 42 then skimmed it.

    5:28 AM, Friday December 13th 2024

    Sorry for the late reply just got back after a break

    Your reply reveals a deep thoughts of self-help frameworks and their limitations. It’s clear that your personal experiences and the realization of the influence of inherent biases in such frameworks have shaped your perspective significantly.

    About the lesson from my personality development class, I think it has been helpful, but in a nuanced way. The key takeaway was understanding the concept of the ideal-self and the real-self, and how bridging the gap between them can lead to personal growth. For me, this subject has been about recognizing the importance of accepting and integrating my current self while striving towards my goals, without getting overly caught up in comparing myself to an ideal that may not be entirely attainable.

    In practice, this has meant focusing more on setting achievable goals and appreciating the progress I make day by day. It has also been about avoiding self-critical comparisons to external standards and finding a more internal and personal measure of success. The concept has helped me develop a healthier perspective on personal growth, especially when faced with the challenge of self-doubt or the feeling of being stuck.

    What's interesting, your reply highlighted a crucial point about the limitations of many self-help frameworks. They often operate under a set of assumptions that may not align with individual realities, leading to frustration rather than clarity.

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    2:36 AM, Saturday November 30th 2024

    That's a really cool question! The answer is very dynamic, as it does not have 1 size fit all answer and it is also how you can tolerate something intangible such an ideal. But isn't ideal and goals the same?

    Ideal and goals are similar but two different things as well. Ideal is something intangible that you cannot reach that often, while goals are basically an ideal that is tangible and broken into a bite size that is achievable. In a metaphor for drawing; an ideal is like the imagination you have that before you draw, when you finally sketch the imagination you find yourself drawing things different like it has the same vibe from the imagination but the look is something else. When you sketch, line art, color, etc... What you're doing is creating a goal to reach the ideal.

    TLDR: Goals are something can be achieved, and ideal is something that is difficult grab because it's abstract. Only when you make an ideal something like a goal like task, daily practice, monthly goals, statement of purpose, etc... can an ideal can manifest into something tangible

    From your question, yes it can be helpful visiting goals. It is detrimental if you compare yourself to an ideal, because you cannot track your progress and that's the reason why people feel bad for not feeling like they improved. While if we compare ourselves to a goal we can say, "Crud! So this is the reason why I'm not improving, it might be painful to move forward but I can say that when I do this goal I can see myself improving tangibly/objectively". And lastly comparison is a bane of improvement, you can take inspiration from others but try not to compare yourself to them, one healthy way for comparison is through your goals and your past self. That way you can see what you have improved.

    (This was taught in my highschool Personality development class when explaining Carl Rogers 's theory on the self. My teacher wanted us to have tools how to bridge the ideal-self to the self which is the present/now)

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    3:53 AM, Thursday November 28th 2024

    This reminds me of Kimon Nicolaïdes. He has a book called Natural way of drawing, I don't know if it's the right book but the name is similar. It talks about his philosophy on gesture drawings. Your piece gives the same feel

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