Thinking about drawing in my future.
A few weeks ago Steve Pavlina wrote something that was both very obvious and very true, but I had never thought about it.
In essences he wrote that time passes. In ten years, ten years will have passed. Which is obvious.
He continued to say that in ten years you will have gathered ten years of experience. Which is also obvious but I never realized that.
In ten years time I will have gathered ten years of experience in what ever it is that I’m doing.
If I spent the next ten years watching TV and doing video games I will have gathered experience in watching TV and gaming. Which is not something I aspire to.
But if I spend only 15 minutes a day drawing. In ten years I will have done thousands of drawings and gained a lot of experience.
Of course when I read this I was in the middle of my blind spot (maybe if I name it I’ll recognize it next time) and I didn’t know what to draw.
But I figured that even if I where to draw gibberish (521-1) I still would be gaining drawing experience. Or at least I would get into the habit of drawing daily.
Having thought some more about it I now feel that it would be nice to spent somewhere between 15 minutes and one hour a day working either on drawings or writing reviews. Because it usually takes more then one day to finish a drawing and I do like to show what I’m working on I’ll be scanning half drawings.
This also led me to a problem I have been running into before. What to name drawings?
I imagine that famous painters like our Rembrandt didn’t name every sketch and experiment he drew. It is getting rather trying to find an original title for every drawing I do especially if some of my drawings will only be gibberish.
The easiest way around this is to number them. And so I don’t get confused I’ll just use the number WordPress gives an article if you don’t name it.
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