Learning to be patient/ Week 1 Noah's Art Camp

Hi guys

Patience is something that i tend to struggle with especially as a beginner artist. When it comes to creating art, the mind frame and the amount of time spent on each piece has a major factor on the end result.

Lately I cant help notice there is this common trend where everybody is concerned about how quickly they produce work and many of us emerging artist tend to have this notion when we see the work that spring out of pros in the industry that we have to be able to produce work as quickly as they are and do speed-paintings and aim towards an impossible expectation, often crippling and hindering our growth as an artist therefore often leaving many of us disheartened and demotivated when our work doesn't meet up to their standards.

But we must remember these pros have been doing it for years, and speed will come naturally with time,experience, and focusing on learning constantly.
  
For me it has always been difficult to try and maintain patience when creating art as I'm always anxious to see how final result of the artwork would turn out like and eager to move on to the next piece, however this mentality often left me with dissatisfying results, my edges are messy, my renderings feel rushed and left many of my work a feeling of unfinished, it was frustrating.

One of the best advise I got from another highly experienced artist was to "stop worrying about how long it takes in the beginning" and really think about how to improve the quality with knowledge of fundamentals and good storytelling". That's when I decided that i really should focus on managing time and put more concentration about how to go about accomplishing my the goals i have set out. Often it is very tempting for me to jump in straight-ahead into the piece and start creating, without no planing or reference gathering, which left me wasting lots of valuable time. As a result. I have started to experiment and figure out ways of working at a consistent pace without the temptation to rush through and see what can often trigger the temptation to rush and stress.

So far I have found these to be quite effective to reduce stress levels and temptation to rush.
again these are just my strategies and may or may not work for everyone;

1. Committing to a scheduled and consistent routine
2. Taking regular short breaks and hangout with friends
3. Stopping when you feel rushed or when levels of stress increases
4. Exercising and staying healthy
5. Regularly ask for feedback. Especially early on when you haven't committed to a design
6. Solve fundamental problems one step at a time 
7. Time yourself for how long it takes you to do a particular task and set time limits accordingly

 These are just some of the strategies i have personally found effective if you guys have any other ideas or thoughts. would love to hear in the comments.

The second part of this blog is my insight into Noah's Art Camp

These are sample of some of the studies i did for the first few days.

Doing these assignments definitely taught me the value of being patient and slow down

Having enrolled in Noah Bradley Art Camp 1 has definitely been the most challenging course I have ever under taken thus far. However It is safe to say I have definitely learned a huge amount of techniques and thought processes within the first week of the course. I consider Noah to be an amazing teacher and artist, the way he explains things and breaks down quite complex concepts into simple bite size chunks is just awesome. Furthermore the community is made up of other fellow artist's hungry to learn, the group are just amazing and so welcoming of new comers, everyone in the community there are so humble and eager to share everything they know, It also took me by surprise to find many other amazing well know illustrators to be chiming in on awesome discussions/chats and giving very valuable and amazing feedback to each artist.Its almost overwhelmingly frighteningly scary but at the same time cool that these industry giants/artist are looking at our work and interact with us quite frequently. Just amazing. artist's that sometimes you feel almost impossible to reach out to are there along with you on the journey to mastery. the group is insanely dedicated and inspiring, fairly small so it really gives us the chance to connect with each other and help each improve quickly.I am very much look-forward for next weeks assignments in completing next weeks assignment titled Sketching From Imagination :) and its insane assignment.




Definitely Check out Noah's Course and what they have to offer.
https://noahbradley.com/
https://artcamp.com/

Each week there are videos covering different exercises to improve your art spanning over 12 weeks with very challenging assignments...and i mean very challenging and almost insane amount of work. But if your eager and hardworking i believe any one can do it.
The level mainly range above intermediate and a good grasp of basic knowledge of fundamentals and basic drawing is essential to really get most out of the course however even beginner artist can still gain a lot from the critiques and feedback videos. If any of you decide to try it out hit me a message, be awesome to learn together and be part of the community.

Thanks for coming to my blog

Happy Painting