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I will never forget years ago when an artist friend was trying to teach me some basics and she asked me to try drawing what I really saw when looking at a white egg on a white paper under a light. I literally just didn't see what she was seeing - I couldn't see the shadows and shades of color and curves - I just saw an egg. She was the first person who gave me a glimpse into trying to see differently. Most recently, I took a grad class in Perceptions and learned so much.

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Super cool - love those memorable shifts of awareness (so often delivered, person to person). I worked for a decade and a half as a model for painting students - the most daring instructor I ever sat for, booked my all-white (doctor) and all black (Chinese Calligrapher) costumes - for COLOUR STUDIES. Blew my mind what he taught the students to see - where the whole class first assumed there was no colour at all!

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That sounds amazing

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Cheers, Bogdan. What a lovely demo! - I suspect the part which makes it seem deceptively easy to new artists is that you make fantastically well judged early choices, to set yourself up for relaxed easy-going successs, as you develop the image. (so hard to teach that priority of rigour - to allow for increasing plafulness as you go - Kevin Bae's painting demos, like yours, are marvellous examples of this insight, too)

I spent years writing short fiction, and I got to a point where I would write things in the first paragraph that I didn't even know I would need (but absolutely did) in the last - like my subconscious was running a better plan than my consciousness was capable of devising!.

All that being said - the book "Right Side" is indeed superb. A major inspiration to me (no money for art-school). Absolutely fell in love with contour style drawing from it, and enjoy it to this day (even spent several years doing technical drawings of space vehicles with a contour style line, to friendly them up).

The main thing I tell students in every single discipline is - look after your pleasure in the work - because if you sabotage that, you'll stop working, growing - and getting access to whole new levels of pleasure - not only in the work, but in your sensitivitity to life itself (the bonus all of us art junkies could never choose to give up - even when frustration might tempt us elsewhere)

PS - In case you're curious about my search for friendly lines for cold machines https://paulsnyders.substack.com/p/cosmic-heroics-doers-of-the-math

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