7:15 PM, Tuesday July 13th 2021
ok, so I'll keep doing it like this. I tried paper vs. iPad pro, it's definitely much much easier on paper!
thanks!
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thomasd3
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11:37 AM, Tuesday July 13th 2021
I just started, and it is really taking time.
But, I've played music for very long and I can't overstate how repetition is EVERYTHING. In music repeating something over and over has a massive impact where you go from being slow and afraid to make mistakes to being able to do it perfectly while having an unrelated chat with someone else.
I assume it is the same with drawing where the beginning probably feels slow and hopefully in a few months we'll laugh at the boxes we do today. The key is most likely the same as other skills: repetition :)
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