A message to my old self...
There are parts of drawing and painting that you cant learn from anywhere but experience.
I think you should know - there are ineffable mental works that happen when drawing or painting when it is art. Intuitions into what comes next.
This is when workflow is culminating from every other piece you've ever made. When all of your self is plastered on the canvas and you are making little reality snapshots.
You cant learn how it feels until you do it so much you capture the feeling and analyze that feeling while it happens. Because of all your practice.
Thats why everyone tells you to draw so much. Every second you spend tracing out routines with your logical mind, analyzing in the mode of practice and learning you also nurture the feeling underneath.
The object is to keep your logical world on call for consultation at any moment, and enter the realm of feeling where you will render the work.
Thanks future self.
I'm not really sure why you chose this specific time to come, but I've seen your words and understand them.
Or perhaps I don't understand as well as I think I do.
But it's a step in the right direction.
That's what I needed.
I will continue to draw.
When I am down or even when I want to draw the most.
I will remember those feelings that come with my drawings..
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Whoa didnt expect a similarly formatted message.... I love you old self