Walking With Failure
April 29, 2020If you want to learn how to draw, you have to draw a lot—probably every day for a few years to get to the level of where you aspire to be.
How did you know that you wouldn’t be able to draw your perfect picture the first time around?
This thing is when trying something new, avoiding failure is not an option. Just like how it was necessary for you to draw 1,095 consecutive drawings before you got to place where you were satisfied with your drawing abilities, things take time to develop (unless you’re a genius and have a genuine natural talent, however most people, myself included, are not).
Again we ask, how do we get to the place we want to be? There’s no shortcut around it, surely, because then there would be no need for good habits, long term schooling, or routine.
It’s okay if we don’t get things right the first time. What we really need is to start taking steps so that we can draw exactly what is inside our heads, design exactly what we think could help somebody else, or be able to produce work for the big league players.
As designers, our relationship with critique and failure is important to improve as it can either push us forward or stop us altogether.