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Create What You Love | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Andrew Price

Create What You Love | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Based on Blender Foundation Speech by Andrew Price (view full speech on youtube.com)

Habit # 7 Create what you Love

 

As people who are serving the Lord we have a strong sense that we are called to something unique and special for us.  We are not called to do everything.  It is clear in the scriptures that God has given out gifts and not all of us have the same gifts.

 

Andrew says, “You have intrinsic motivation when you are doing something that you love. ”

 

How this related to me in drawing the cartoons is that I have always loved teaching the word of God in children’s church because I know his word will never return void.  It might take my life time to get this project done but I will never stop because it is what I LOVE to do.

 

Find out what you love and start doing it.  Even if it takes you your whole life time to complete, take encouragement that you will always have something to wake up in the morning for.

 

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Feedback | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Andrew Price

Feedback | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Based on Blender Foundation speech given by Andrew Price (view video on youtube.com)

Habit #6 Get feedback

 

Andrew says, “You want true honest feedback.”

 

In my efforts to cartoon the bible, I found the kids I am reading the stories to, to give me the best true and honest feedback.  I would ask them questions after the story and I could tell whether they were getting the point or if they were confused.

 

I have been really pleased with how many times they would correct me and see inconsistencies in the cartoons or the story.  I would realize from their feedback that I needed to go and do some rewriting.

 

Feedback is pure gold. A humble heart is always looking to do better, especially when we are working for the Lord.  Never take feedback as negative.  Don’t be oversensitive about it.

 

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Volume Not Perfection | 7 Habits of a Good Artist | Andrew Price

Habit #2  Work on Volume not Perfection

7 HABITS OF A GOOD ARTIST based on Blender Foundation Speech by Andrew Price
(You can find the series on Youtube.com)

Habit #2 is to work on Volume of pieces and not perfection of each piece of art that you do.  Andrew Price uses the example of Picasso and how he did a huge volume of artwork, thousands and thousands of pieces, but only a few pieces became famous.

Apparently the more compositions you make in 5 years, the higher your chances become in making a “hit”.

How I found this related to me in my cartooning of the bible is that, because each story required 10 to 15 pictures, I couldn’t afford to do “perfect”  artwork, as the upcoming Sunday service only allowed me a certain amount of time to get the story presentable. Fortunately since kids are so forgiving, I just made the pictures as best as I could and over time my art work started to improve.   Probably most stories have been done 2 to 3 times to get them to their current level.  I can attest that volume of work makes a difference.  You get better as you do it.  Don’t slow yourself down trying to be perfect.  Just keep on moving.

I also have come to ACCEPT that my work WON’T be perfect.  Before I even started the project of cartooning the bible, I was at a church and the pastor called me out and said that he felt God had a message for me.  He said God was going to give me a work to do and that I was not to compare myself to others and say that others could have done this job better.  I accept the job given to me and I am doing my best to develop the talent given to me.  I encourage the same for you.