How To Better Your Drafting Abilities: Perfect Your Strengths Or Minimize Your Shortcomings?

Even if you're pensioned like a lot of of my readers, you have only limited free hours and energy for your drawing hobby. And if you're making art for your living then time and vitality will be almost more constricted and valued to you!

And so you may be asking yourself: what could I concentrate on when drafting? You could work on increasing your potentialsor you could put time in getting rid of your shortcomings.

Rather a delicate question. It's important to think some time on the question into what to put your hours and energy.

On one hand you could concentrate on your best skills. Let us say for example you're great in sketching fluent and realistic looking blendings. So you should invest more of your attempts into further honing these skills. Some more time will take your skill-level from "great" to "more than outstanding".

But then you should put your energy into mending your shortcomings. Let us assume you need many added praxis in drawing perspective and proportions more accurately. Investing some effort you can better your skills in this area to at least medium levels.

But a second! If you center alone on compensating your shortcomings, you will put many time to turn these weaknesses into just second-rate skills. In the end that implies you will end up with virtually only intermediate powers, the outcome is only mediocrity.

You read there are both advantages and disadvantages to both alternatives be it building on your existing abilities or be it reducing your shortcomings.

Numerous artists may try to explain you: leave the shortcomings and concentrate on your top abilities. That's a great advice but as you will understand only a fraction of the truth.

So what to do?

Foremost it is important you recognize your shortcomings and you ought to understand how often your shortcomings spoil your overall results. For example: When drawing many pencil pictures, mediocre proficiency in proportions and perspective drawing will handicap you much more than absent skills in the use of colours. In fact these skills are utterly unnecessary as long as you continue drawing monochrome pencil sketches.

And that's the important thing: only forget these shortcomings that do not affect your projects and artwork. But invest a good share of your time and energy into those shortcomings that keep you from getting better results . Work on neutralizing these shortcomings - and exclusively these!

Then you will have a lot of hours left to work on bettering your existing abilities even farther. And that's what you should do, also. If you follow this strategy you will have the best outcomes imaginable for your time and energy.

One closing addition: these advices may sound a little like those efficiency stuff taught in management courses. And yes it is very similar. But it is not proposing to pressing the last drip of creativity out of you! It's only for doing the right things in the right order that help you improve your drawing abilities most.

And naturally please do not forget the amusing part of sketching. So if you want to try and practice new methods since it is entertaining then just do it! (and do not ask yourself whether it will help you or not ...)

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