Can someone convert this into a readable format?
The image hosting appears to be spotty, it's on a message board, it's paginated, the dates are unclear, there are now hundreds of comments congratulating the guy, etc. etc. etc.
This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
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Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#12His initial drawing are much, much better than anything I could currently muster.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#13Can someone convert this into a readable format? The image hosting appears to be spotty, it's on a message board, it's paginated, the dates are unclear, there are now hundreds of comments congratulating the guy, etc. etc. etc.
TL;DR Guy is impressed by painters (and it sounded like a family member that was a painter too) so without any kind of art training he decided he wanted to learn the craft. He decided to make one new piece of art per day, and sometimes 2 per day on weekends. If you look at his first few pages of posts you see the 3d cube drawings he started with while he learned how to sketch and whatnot, and then skip to like page 50 which is years and years later you will see these masterful portraits of his wife, jugs of wine and grapes, all kinds of stuff. Apparently now he is a fulltime artist and doing the best he's ever done despite the economic climate.
Also, you might want to disable flash on this forum it's posted on. Flashblock chrome extension is nice to have in this kind of situation.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#14Check out his website[1] for quicker loading examples of his more recent work.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#15His initial drawing are much, much better than anything I could currently muster.
Have you tried? I used to draw, a lot. As much as this guy but I was a lot younger. People often told me the same thing "I couldn't even draw a cup that looks like a cup!" Sometimes I'd get them to try and if they were a little bit patient they drew something that looked a lot like the first drawing of that mug (Usually not including the shading).
I'm fairly confident that most people could draw that first mug if they really wanted to. The drawings 30 pages in though, that takes much more skill and patience. And it takes a long time to learn it.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#16I found the detail on this face: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2660638&... to be really good. If you go to later posts you can see how the painting evolves.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I need to build a bot that detects and replies to these comments: "Because n people voted it so. 'On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.'"
+1, and Honestly this is much more in topic for hackers than "how to avoid to get gamed by your VC in ten rules".
Wait, there's more to hacking than funding and getting acquired?
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#18This reminds me a lot of Penny Arcade, I started reading it 10 years ago for the video game commentary but I've really enjoyed watching the quality of the writing and comics improve to such a world class level over time.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#19Interestingly, he's pretty close to (but still under) the ten year mark for getting mastery that Peter Norvig wrote about in an essay about mastering programming. (http://norvig.com/21-days.html).
(This was before the rule changed to 10,000 hours.) It could be interesting for someone more knowledgable about art to indicate at what point he hit 'mastery' (assuming that has already happened) and to then estimate how many hours it took him to get there.
Re: This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
#20His initial drawing are much, much better than anything I could currently muster.
Have you tried? I used to draw, a lot . As much as this guy but I was a lot younger. People often told me the same thing "I couldn't even draw a cup that looks like a cup!" Sometimes I'd get them to try and if they were a little bit patient they drew something that looked a lot like the first drawing of that mug (Usually not including the shading). I'm fairly confident that most people could draw that first mug if th…
No, I haven't really tried (because I'm not interested in it). I realize now that this guy probably practiced a lot before the initial posts on that forum thread, but I was just pointing out that his initial attempts are always significantly better than what my initial attempts would be.