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TUTORIAL // a roadmap for artistic growth (Patreon)

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2023-02-08 13:54:56
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Here it is: this month’s tutorial! It’s actually more of a lecture, since it doesn’t demonstrate any drawing techniques. It’s about artistic growth and it lays out a roadmap for artistic improvement. Thanks to Brandi for suggesting this one in the discord server!

This tutorial breaks down artistic improvement into 5 main stages. For each stage, I talk about which exercises you can do to improve in that area. At the end (40:11 minutes in), I talk about how you can troubleshoot your art to figure out which stage you could focus on at this moment in your growth process. Hopefully it will be a helpful guide for those of you who are not sure where to start, and also for those of you who are not sure which tutorials you should follow after signing up to this patreon!

As always, here is a cheat sheet with the most important info from the tutorial! You can also find it as a PDF below, along with a handy worksheet to help you narrow down your artistic goals.

Below is a list of tutorials referenced in the video. Some are available to all patrons, some only for flame members - those are indicated with a little flame emoji. The cheat sheet PDF attached at the end also has clickable links in it if you want to access them that way!

01 // COMFORT ZONE

02 // LEARNING TO OBSERVE

03 // BUILDING SKILLS

04 // MAXIMIZING EFFICIENCY

05 // CULTIVATING YOUR VOICE

I also mentioned that I have some process videos for finished paintings that you can reference as a resource for elevating the detail in your art. Here are a few that I can recommend:

I hope you find this helpful! Please let me know what you think and if you have any ideas for future tutorials, feel free to share them with me! ❤

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Anonymous

So helpful 🥹😭

Anonymous

this is amazing - thanks so much for being so generous with your knowledge.

Anonymous

This is a really good pick-me-up. Thank you so much!! 💖

Anonymous

thank you

Anonymous

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I was the one who’d suggested it, and this was even better than I’d imagined!! It’s so well thought-out and super helpful!! Thank you again!❤️

Brittani Harris

Thanks for listing all of the tutorials you referenced. I’m a spark member, but I have them all saved.

Anonymous

This was such a great video! I loved your analogy about driving! I really resonated with the negative thoughts/anxiety part. Back in 2020/2021 I burnt myself out pretty bad and had to step away from art for a few months. One of the main culprits was me constantly judging my art negatively while I was making it, causing me to no longer enjoy the process. I basically scared myself away from making art because I was so mean to myself when I tried to do it. 🥲 A mindset shift that helped me was to think of your mind as having 2 voices in your creative process- your artist voice and your editor voice. Your artist voice relies more on intuition, trusts the process, and explores. Your editor voice makes judgements, corrections, and is outcome focused. There is a time and place for each of them, but trying to do both at the same time (especially when the editor voice is overly negative) can prevent you from enjoying the process or even attempting to make anything in the first place. A little of your editor voice may pop in when you’re drawing to help you make decisions but letting your artistic, more process driven voice trust your intuition will help to quiet that judgement.

Kathryn Cook

You put so much time and effort into this!!!! I am so appreciative!!!! ❤

Anonymous

I completely forgot to say thank you for the reflection sheet. I haven't filled it out for last year, but use it to keep track of this year. It's a nice way to evaluate what one has actually achieved in week or month, which can be so helpful for that positive mindset you mentioned in this video. :)

Anonymous

You're nailing it with "self-help" recourses. I love the Troubleshooting chart in the end of the video. It immediately helped me to point a finger on what I should focus.

Loish
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i'm glad you like it! I've found such worksheets to be really helpful in the past, I generally really like breaking my thoughts down into separate themes/topics so that i can make more sense of them.

Loish
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that is such a good way of looking at it! it's generally always helpful to basically label negative voices so that we separate them from "realitity". feelings of inadequacy always feel so urgent and therefore feel like "the truth" but in actual fact it's just one of many voices that are always speaking up during our daily lives. thanks for your insights!

Anonymous

I learn so much from you, it's crazy! Thank you so much for all this material!

Anonymous

Great stuff, once again. You are such a good teacher. Right after watching this video I filled my calendar with concrete ideas on what to do to get to my next level.

Casey Gerber

This is fantastic, thank you so much Lois! I have always wanted a tutorial like this, where technical skill is not the only focus in the artistic journey. There is this huge piece of the puzzle that a lot of folks simplify down to "style", but it's more than that, it's knowing who you are and what kind of art you want to make. Thank you for including discussion of this in the tutorial, it was really helpful!!

Anonymous

I LOVE this tutorial. I almost feel like it was pure luck to run into this tutorial since it came out a few months ago but I’m so glad that I did. Incredibly helpful.

Anonymous

I'm so glad I've been snooping around since I've subscribed! THIS is what I needed for my art rut! Thank you for this much needed discussion.

Anonymous

Thank you so much for this excellent video 🙏🏼