a battleplan
Just ’cause I’m not in school, doesn’t mean I want to stop learning. Never. I want to be self-taught. Here’s how I’m going to do it.
I’m gonna do my best to:
- be serious and professional when learning, creating and pursuing
- be open-minded and light-hearted when learning, creating and pursuing
- go ahead and aquire (and read) as many good art, illustration and design books as I can, whenever I can
(right now: rummaging thrift stores for vintage children’s books counts) - go ahead and buy tools that will make it easier and more fun for me to create whenever I can
(right now: one of those little wooden bendy model guys and an adjustable stool for my drafting table) - take workshops somewhere in something technical but creative whenever I can
(right now: print making, or jewellery smithing, or comic creation really interest me) - go to LOTS of life drawing
- read more (everyday)
- write/blog more (everyday)
- draw more (everyday)
- create, for no reason other than to create (everyday)
So long as I make some kind of change to myself or my environment, made something happen, learned/made/created/adapted/altered something in the world somehow (flapped my butterfly wings, hoping for a hurricane in Guatemala, so to speak) it’ll be a good day.
Some interesting reading on being self-taught:
autodidacticism
amateurs are the devil
February 10th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
sounds like a most excellent battleplan! hooray for learning on your own.
February 10th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Kinda funny how in that ‘amateurs are the devil’ article no one seemed to care about the final product.
February 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Kickpleat/Jeannette: Yeah! I just hope I keep up with it. Publishing it here means I can’t just forget about it, or ignore it.
Travis: I might even argue that someone who is not traditionally trained might bring with them a fresh, lively new veiwpoint to a project - leading to innovation and increased creativity in the end result. But someone who is trained is less likely to blind someone by choosing the wrong colour combination, or injure someone by choosing to make chair legs too spindly.
April 9th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
[...] looking forward to getting back to a routine now - hopefully the kind of routine I spoke about here, with a few interesting additions maybe. Rock climbing? Voice lessons? Volunteering at the Library? [...]