Drawing: Good draftsmanship balanced with gesture and rhythm.
Design: Clear and appealing work that demonstrates contrast and Dominance/Hierarchy as applied to: value, color, line, shape, and composition.*
Painting: Light and its effects on various surfaces, as well as a practical understanding of color theory/harmonies and brush work.
Professionalism: You take direction, do the work well with a good attitude and you do it on time.
You have a humble deferential attitude that allows you to work with and serve others. You listen and defer to your boss or client, and you are a servant leader to those who are your subordinates: including people not directly related to your vocation like janitors, plumbers etc.*
*Hierarchy is a good thing (when it's not abused) and applies to relationships between sentient beings just as much as it applies to design.
*Also see Hierarchy.
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#2: You gotta want this you gotta train like you want this:
This is how a professional trains:
The battle starts and end in the mind/soul.
This is how a professional thinks:
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#3: Most of your work needs to take place in your sketchbook. If your not working your ass off there, it ain't gonna happen friend. (You will remain an amateur until you clock a certain amount of drawing in, period.)
10,000 hours
Ok so there is a theory
that the average person needs about 10,000 hours of practice to gain mastery in
a field...I think it's a good theory.
If we were just talking
about drawing here’s what that would look like in terms of sketch books:
Assuming your putting about
1.5 hours into a page that’s:
6667
pages (1.5 hours a page).
-67 sketchbooks (100 pages
each drawing one side of page).
-5 pages a week 10 months a
year:
-200 pages a year=2
sketchbooks a year=33 years.
However you aren’t only
drawing your also working on DRAWING PAINTING and DESIGN
So starting from scratch here’s
what 10000 hours drawing/painting/designing practice looks like daily assuming
your:
Working 5
days a week 10 months a year (200 days a year).
-2 hour plan (400 hours a
year)=25 years.
-4 hour plan (800 hours a
year)=12.5 years
-8 hour plan (1600 hours a
year)=6.25
-10 hour plan (2000 hours a
year)=5 years
-12 hour plan (2400 hours a
year)=4.12
75% Drawing/Designing
25% painting/Rendering
2 hour (25 year) plan 1.5
hours drawing.
4 hour (12.5 year) plan 3
hours drawing.
8 hour (6.25) plan 6 hours
drawing.
10 hour (5 year) plan 7.5
hours drawing.
12 hour (4.12 year) plan 9
hours drawing.
But
chances are you aren’t starting from scratch entering college:
If between the ages of 8
and 18 (assuming you're starting college at 18) you drew/painted/designed an
average of the following amount of hours a week (5 days a week 10 months a
year) you could subtract the following totals from your 10 thousand hour block:
1 hour: - 400hrs
2 hours: -800hrs
4 hours: -1600hrs
10 hours: -4000hrs
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#4 Find a realist focus/purpose for your work: What specific role are you passionate about and capable of filling in in the world of art.
PURPOSE. FIND ONE.
