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Improving technique

Improving technique: Focused practice: an exercise for real improvement in 33 days

Posted on September 3, 2012
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Simply sitting down and banging out a few gesture drawings every day is a great way to stay in drawing shape, but it will rarely propel you to a new level of artistic achievement. If your goal is to simply "get better," your progress is likely to be slow and demoralizing. Studies show that people who get to be top in their field, from artists to computer programmers to Olympians, nearly all... Continue reading →

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