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Author: darwinistdarwinist Date: Jul 22, 2008 18:43
There are lots of things you may want to get good at: Things required
for your job, hobbies, games, social-interaction, creative arts,
cooking, managing time, managing money, making scale matchstick
replicas of famous architecture.
Whatever you want to do and do well, it's important not to make your
education too narrow, or put all your eggs in one basket. For example
you can read all the books you want about drawing but there's a lot
you won't learn until you start drawing for yourself. The physical
skills and spatial awareness that you need to make a picture work, and
your own particular strengths and weaknesses won't become apparent
without practice.
That doesn't mean that reading about drawing won't help. A lot of
useful techniques or exercises can be learned from the experience of
other people, and someone with great skill and accuracy might still
have a very limited drawing style until their eyes are opened by the
examples of others.
Habits matter as well as skills and knowledge. If you only do rough
drafts of something before moving on to something else then you won't
end up refining your work or learning as much as you could from...
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Author: JackJack Date: Jul 23, 2008 06:52
> There are lots of things you may want to get good at: Things required
> for your job, hobbies, games, social-interaction, creative arts,
> cooking, managing time, managing money, making scale matchstick
> replicas of famous architecture.
>
> Whatever you want to do and do well, it's important not to make your
> education too narrow, or put all your eggs in one basket. For example
> you can read all the books you want about drawing but there's a lot
> you won't learn until you start drawing for yourself. The physical
> skills and spatial awareness that you need to make a picture work, and
> your own particular strengths and weaknesses won't become apparent
> without practice.
>
> That doesn't mean that reading about drawing won't help. A lot of
> useful techniques or exercises can be learned from the experience of
> other people, and someone with great skill and accuracy might still
> have a very limited drawing style until their eyes are opened by the
> examples of others. ...
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Author: darwinistdarwinist Date: Jul 23, 2008 17:44
On Jul 23, 11:52 pm, "Jack" yahoo.com> wrote:>> There are lots of things you may want to get good at: Things required
>> for your job, hobbies, games, social-interaction, creative arts,
>> cooking, managing time, managing money, making scale matchstick
>> replicas of famous architecture.
>
>> Whatever you want to do and do well, it's important not to make your
>> education too narrow, or put all your eggs in one basket. For example
>> you can read all the books you want about drawing but there's a lot
>> you won't learn until you start drawing for yourself. The physical
>> skills and spatial awareness that you need to make a picture work, and
>> your own particular strengths and weaknesses won't become apparent
>> without practice.
>
>> That doesn't mean that reading about drawing won't help. A lot of
>> useful techniques or exercises can be learned from the experience of ...
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Author: JackJack Date: Jul 24, 2008 13:22
"darwinist" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6780636c-2775-47f1-b5ba-8803c1931299@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
On Jul 23, 11:52 pm, "Jack" yahoo.com> wrote:>> There are lots of things you may want to get good at: Things required
>> for your job, hobbies, games, social-interaction, creative arts,
>> cooking, managing time, managing money, making scale matchstick
>> replicas of famous architecture.
>
>> Whatever you want to do and do well, it's important not to make your
>> education too narrow, or put all your eggs in one basket. For example
>> you can read all the books you want about drawing but there's a lot
>> you won't learn until you start drawing for yourself. The physical
>> skills and spatial awareness that you need to make a picture work, and
>> your own particular strengths and weaknesses won't become apparent
>> without practice.
> ...
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Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Jul 25, 2008 02:38
On Jul 23, 2:43 am, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:> There are lots of things you may want to get good at: Things required
> for your job, hobbies, games, social-interaction, creative arts,
> cooking, managing time, managing money, making scale matchstick
> replicas of famous architecture.
>
> Whatever you want to do and do well, it's important not to make your
> education too narrow, or put all your eggs in one basket. For example
> you can read all the books you want about drawing but there's a lot
> you won't learn until you start drawing for yourself. The physical
> skills and spatial awareness that you need to make a picture work, and
> your own particular strengths and weaknesses won't become apparent
> without practice.
>
> That doesn't mean that reading about drawing won't help. A lot of
> useful techniques or exercises can be learned from the experience of
> other people, and someone with great skill and accuracy might still
> have a very limited drawing style until their eyes are opened by the
> examples of others.
> ...
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Author: JackJack Date: Jul 25, 2008 05:40
> On Jul 23, 2:43 am, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:>> There are lots of things you may want to get good at: Things required
>> for your job, hobbies, games, social-interaction, creative arts,
>> cooking, managing time, managing money, making scale matchstick
>> replicas of famous architecture.
>>
>> Whatever you want to do and do well, it's important not to make your
>> education too narrow, or put all your eggs in one basket. For example
>> you can read all the books you want about drawing but there's a lot
>> you won't learn until you start drawing for yourself. The physical
>> skills and spatial awareness that you need to make a picture work, and
>> your own particular strengths and weaknesses won't become apparent
>> without practice.
>>
>> That doesn't mean that reading about drawing won't help. A lot of
>> useful techniques or exercises can be learned from the experience of
>> other people, and someone with great skill and accuracy might still
>> have a very limited drawing style until their eyes are opened by the ...
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Jul 25, 2008 06:27
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:38:04 -0700, chazwin wrote:
> I'm off to build a another oak bookcase with my new router.
Oh yea?
I am off to bundle trimmed tree branches up with my newly invented
'trimmed-tree-branch-bundling' system.
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