How Practice May Be Killing Your Joy

"If you wanna get good, just practice!" You may have heard this advice, but is it really the best way to improve? My view is that there is a better way, and in this video I'll tell you about how I've moved from a 'practice to improve mindset' to a 'create a project mindset' and where I think continuously practicing can be a trap that's best avoided.

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Tools I Use:

-Uniball Signo Gel Ink Pens, in various colours for daily drawings:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B003...

-Adobe Photoshop CS6 for digital painting

-Coolorus extension in Photoshop to get the Painter-like color wheel. You can download it here: http://bit.ly/2bGIQFD

-Procreate on iPad Pro 12.9" with Apple Pencil for sketching digitally.

-Clip Studio Paint for drawing comics: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01F...

-Wacom Cintiq 22HD: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B008...

-Open Broadcaster Software to record my videos: https://obsproject.com/

-Audacity to record my audio: http://www.audacityteam.org/

-Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to render my videos.

-Smudgeguard glove to keep my hand from directly touching the Cintiq: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B075...

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