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Do you have any tips about how to have some discipline while drawing?
I struggled with discipline for a long time, until a few years ago, it's not easy but it's completely worth it, my advice would be to start small, it's better to do tiny things consistently and get used to it. Self discipline is one of the best things you could teach yourself. Here's my tip, do 10 minutes a day, it doesn't have to be creative, you can do technical exercises, but it has to be purposeful. You'll end up doing more than 10, but it should be at least 10, because it's easy to sustain, when it doesn't feel like you have to force yourself to do it, you can start increasing the time. You have to make a conscious effort and really want to develop self discipline. You can do it.
is there a bird that just stays on zero?? because i'm struggling creatively right now and i don't know how to exactly improve consistently with art
The bird that stays on zero is the one that doesn't try. set aside say 30 minutes a day for art, if you don't have any creative ideas, do some practice, you can study anatomy or any other technical skill and inspiration will inevitably strike.
@snoats I think in that case, you’re in the nest. Spread your wings, my dude! You’ll never improve if you don’t start. I think the best thing to do is to dive right into it. That’s how you do it!
I agree completely
@Sevi Thank you I will try my best
Emrox
I can definitely see why self-discipline is an important thing to develop, but I feel like some of the biggest proponents of the "fuck motivation, just get to work every day" philosophy don't do especially good work. Like that guy who wrote The War of Art - that book has some good-sounding ideas in it, but if you look up any of the screenplays that guy wrote, they were all like uninspired horseshit movies. There's a professor at my college who claimed to have pitched 40 TV shows before one finally got picked up by a network, which is an inspiring story of persistence and discipline, but the show he made is just so unbelievably bad.
My takeaway is that you can develop a sort of disciplined approach when it comes to developing technical skill stuff, (which it sounds like is more what you were talking about here), but when it comes to making finished pieces that are supposed to hold up on their own merit, that sort of mindset of forcing yourself to "just make something" would probably lead to putting out a lot of dull work. That said, I have pretty bad self-discipline, so maybe I'm the bad example at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Sevi
I see what you're saying, I'm definitely not advocating quantity over quality, or just marking time, I believe the opposite. This assumes that both have the same potential, and the variant is discipline vs motivation. I've found that if you wait around for inspiration to strike, you'll waste a lot of time, and will be at its mercy, on the other hand, developing discipline will make you draw more, which will fuel whatever it is that inspires you, and you'll find motivation more often, but you don't have to wait for the right mood to strike, but when it does, you'll have more technical skill. As far as what you said about the biggest proponents of "fuck motivation, just get to work every day" I disagree, look at the biggest animators, they don't sit around waiting for motivation, they are some of the hardest working people, day in and day out, and they've made some of the coolest shit.