Because real progress doesn't happen when you play to your strengths. It happens when you drag your weaknesses into the light & refuse to look away.
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🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 05:55:47 JST 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung
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🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 05:55:48 JST 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung
Stopped calling half-baked work good enough. I became my own harshest critic, forcing myself to break things down to roughs, to think in 3D before committing to ink. That's where the real discipline of drawing is. The part most people avoid. The perverse satisfaction of working past frustration.
Then something clicked. I could draw anywhere, any time, under any conditions. Public, private, chaos, silence. Didn't matter. The focus locked in & the results came fast.
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🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 05:55:50 JST 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung
#DailyLaws February 14
Move Towards Resistance
I never saw it back then but my approach to drawing was all wrong I skipped the pencil work: no structure, no foundation. Just straight to ink, trying to force a finished product out of something I didn't even build. No composition, no vanishing points, no thought to light sources or form. My skills warped around that shortcut, leaving entire areas underdeveloped.The shift came when I stopped lying to myself.