Habit #2 Work on Volume not Perfection
7 HABITS OF A GOOD ARTIST based on Blender Foundation Speech by Andrew Price
(You can find the series on Youtube.com)
Habit #2 is to work on Volume of pieces and not perfection of each piece of art that you do. Andrew Price uses the example of Picasso and how he did a huge volume of artwork, thousands and thousands of pieces, but only a few pieces became famous.
Apparently the more compositions you make in 5 years, the higher your chances become in making a “hit”.
How I found this related to me in my cartooning of the bible is that, because each story required 10 to 15 pictures, I couldn’t afford to do “perfect” artwork, as the upcoming Sunday service only allowed me a certain amount of time to get the story presentable. Fortunately since kids are so forgiving, I just made the pictures as best as I could and over time my art work started to improve. Probably most stories have been done 2 to 3 times to get them to their current level. I can attest that volume of work makes a difference. You get better as you do it. Don’t slow yourself down trying to be perfect. Just keep on moving.
I also have come to ACCEPT that my work WON’T be perfect. Before I even started the project of cartooning the bible, I was at a church and the pastor called me out and said that he felt God had a message for me. He said God was going to give me a work to do and that I was not to compare myself to others and say that others could have done this job better. I accept the job given to me and I am doing my best to develop the talent given to me. I encourage the same for you.