this is draw them all i'm elliot and i am drawing every pokemon in an effort to get better
at drawing if you are interested in following along on that journey check out the instagram
page link in the description below today i want to talk about learning because this whole project
is about learning about practicing about improving my illustration skills
learning how to use different software learning techniques learning about color
there is so much in drawing to know in fact the more i know about it the less i feel like i know
there is a saying when you start drawing you start noticing all the little details of life and i
really believe it's true the more i i immerse myself in it the more i feel like i need to know
but here's my relationship with learning so i love learning but i hate being taught i was not good in
school at all because i'm a kinesthetic learner which means that i don't learn
from reading i don't learn from like watching a tutorial or listening to instructions i learn
by getting my hands dirty and doing and making mistakes over and over again that is how i learn
and that's why this project is so effective for me because i'm doing this every day i'm drawing every
day and i like the analogy of learning as a dimmer switch not a light switch you could flick on and
off it's not one moment you have no knowledge of it and the next moment you're an expert
it's a dimmer switch and it's very gradual every time you do it every time you experience it
you increase the brightness a little bit more this analogy was explained to me from a great courses
audiobook about vocabulary and that tends to be how we learn vocabulary we don't hear a word once
and immediately add it to our own mental dictionary and be able to use it in a day-to-day
scenario especially if the word is very foreign to us so i really like that analogy and i really
believe in it here it's every time i sit down i try to draw i try to make it one percent better
or i try to learn a new technique or i try to get really specific and very detailed or i i just try
to do something one percent better i try to be one percent faster um do i always succeed no sometimes
i mess up and i just have to get through with it and that is a learning experience when you mess up
that's actually when you learn it's when you try to make it one percent better you don't always
and i i like that i like the process of making mistakes i like the process of challenging myself
and the fact that i'm doing this every day makes it feel like there's no risk at all because
tomorrow i'll get to sit down and i'll try again you know no one's gonna stop me no one's gonna
tell me hey yesterday was really bad you should stop doing this so i'm always more of a process
over progress type of person i believe progress will happen if you have a process
down so that's something i feel very happy that i developed because i'm coming to the one year mark
and i've done nearly 400 pokemons drawn and that's what i feel like is important i'm learning new
software i'm learning new techniques i'm learning to apply uh different aspects and combine it
together i started doing some animation i learned illustrator just a few months ago i never thought
i'd be able to understand the pen tool now i feel like i got it down pretty good so that feels
like quite an accomplishment and it's just about what do i want to do now do i want to
get better at using the tool or do i want to get a better product so there you go those are just
some of my thoughts about learning and how i have learned to learn
which it's sad that it's taking me so long to figure it out and um i'm not sure
what public school is like now but it definitely failed me at various points during my youth so
anyways that's beside the point i'm glad to be where i am now i'm glad to still
be able to do this and persistence baby we'll get through this i look forward to
being done to be honest but in the meantime there's a lot of practice left to do
thank you so much for watching my name is elliot i make videos about writing and the creative process
if you are interested in more videos like this one check out this playlist
or if you're interested in seeing some of my animations so far check out this video right here
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