{"id":192,"date":"2009-01-08T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2009\/01\/08\/suggestions-for-improving-or-if-you-want-to-learn-to-draw-draw-draw-draw\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T17:37:29","slug":"suggestions-for-improving-or-if-you-want-to-learn-to-draw-draw-draw-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2009\/01\/08\/suggestions-for-improving-or-if-you-want-to-learn-to-draw-draw-draw-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions for Improving&#8230;or, &quot;if you want to learn to draw &#8212; draw, draw, draw.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Interesting article:<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Every day you are slowly reinventing yourself into the person\/artist you\u2019re going to be in ten years. Keep this in mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generally speaking, if you are young and male, trust your opinions about your work a little less, you aren\u2019t as good as you think. If you are a woman of any age, \u00a0you\u2019re usually a little better than you give yourself credit for. This isn\u2019t an exact thing, but psychologically, this seems to be how it works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a last comment, I would stress how important drawing is. Painting is an extension of drawing. If you don\u2019t draw well, you will not paint well. Master drawing and you can do anything you want with it. It is the most fundamental skill in all the visual arts and is an asset to every visual artist. &#8220;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">More here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnclapp.com\/class_pages\/class_suggestions.html\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.johnclapp.com\/class_pages\/class_suggestions.html<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article: &#8220;Every day you are slowly reinventing yourself into the person\/artist you\u2019re going to be in ten years. Keep this in mind.&#8221; &#8220;Generally speaking, if you are young and male, trust your opinions about your work a little less, you aren\u2019t as good as you think. If you are a woman of any age, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-philosophy","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}