Make your art "better".

Clueless people

“I can help you make your art better” - a comment on one of my Substack notes.

This person introduced themselves supposedly with vast teaching experience and said he could help me improve my art.

If this guy only knew how hard I’m trying to make my art deliberately “bad”.

A friend started drawing recently. He’s doing observational drawings of objects around him. The first thing he said when he shared his drawings was “of course, I don’t have any talent”.

Why is it that people believe that good art is rendering things realistically? YouTube is saturated with videos and tutorials on how to draw “well”. Ah. Yes. The algorithms.

I was guilty of that too. Ten years ago I was desperate to draw accurately.

Accurately. What a horrible word to use in drawing. Unless you are an engineer, product designer, architect or scientific illustrator you don’t need to draw accurately, ask Frida. The more expressive you allow yourself to be, the less you have to worry about being “good” because your human …