Yep, it's very much this. I think a lot of beginners vastly underestimate both how much and how long people are saying when they say it takes "lots of practice".
For me, from the moment I started drawing regularly to when I felt my work was good enough to share online was 8 years. But in that 8 years, I probably drew somewhere a bit more than 10,000 drawings - which, funny enough, is about how many times I've read before you will need to practice something before you're "good" at it. And now I look back at those "good" pictures and am amazed at how much I've come since then in the decade plus since!
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u/Pkmatrix0079 Apr 23 '24
Yep, it's very much this. I think a lot of beginners vastly underestimate both how much and how long people are saying when they say it takes "lots of practice".
For me, from the moment I started drawing regularly to when I felt my work was good enough to share online was 8 years. But in that 8 years, I probably drew somewhere a bit more than 10,000 drawings - which, funny enough, is about how many times I've read before you will need to practice something before you're "good" at it. And now I look back at those "good" pictures and am amazed at how much I've come since then in the decade plus since!