Practice Needs a Purpose

Practicing drawing needs a purpose. Likewise, practicing football, baseball, and the violin requires a purpose. So before you start any practice, you need to be clear on your purpose.

Purpose lets you experience total satisfaction. When you know what you are practicing for, you have clarity when you are done that you either achieved the objective or understand what you need to do next time to complete your purpose. Either way, you get feedback.

Today's drawing focused on using colors on the same side of the color wheel to create a sketch.

Not using the "actual" colors of the object but just picking two colors to draw. I achieved that objective. This drill will allow me to think beyond the object's color and more toward a fun, exciting color pallet.

What is your purpose for doing something today?

Lemon

Colored pencils again today.

I used yellow and the complementary color purple to give the lemon structure and highlights. With the light coming from above, the highlights are strong on the top and cast a strong shadow.

Progressing

I was hesitant to draw today. I had the pressure and negative energy of failure. I was procrastinating because my drawing wouldn’t be good and would frustrate me. The opposite happened; I am one drawing closer to improving my skills. 1% improvement daily. I will improve my drawing by drawing.

What do you want to improve, but you are generating friction and procrastination?