Remeber in "Karate Kid" where Daniel-son gets ticked off at Mr. Miagi and demands to know why he's been painting and sanding and washing...and not learning karate. The moral, we all remember, is that sometimes you are learning even if you don't know it.
And that kind of learning sucks.
I am at the point on my current drawing that it is past ad tedium, ad nausium...it is to the point that I want to take my maul stick and repeatedly bash myself in the face. Now I am using hyperbole here, but I really wish I could move on to the fun stuff. Shading in a background is not fun. Showing your work in a gallery and making millions of dollars and gaining international notoriety while your exhibit tours museums the world over...that is fun.
But as Daniel learned, you can't defeat Cobra Kai unless you "sand the deck" and hop like a crane on a frigid beach. So I suppose I'm learning something now. I just hope I can appreciate the learning process and not get fed up.
2 comments:
Hang in there, Jay-son.
DA
Jay-
You know, there is more learning in misery and defeat and unhappiness than in moments of ease and contentment. Push through the hard parts. Endure.
Even when you think you are bored or your work is tedious, there are parts of you brain making connections and working hard on your behalf. Creative downtime is time spent working things out on a subconscious level.
I hope this makes some sense.
In the immortal words of Mr. Miagi, Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off...
-M
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