[TheForge] Re: Starting up

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Andy,

It's all a matter of practice.  If you can make nice drawings you will get
faster the more you do.  The first few will take forever, after 10 or 20
illustrations it'll be much easier, by the time you finish the book you'll
be cranking them out like a pro.

Now the problem comes if you can't draw at all.  Getting faster just
generates a lot of junk.

It's the same as iron work,  get the quality, and then the speed.  A few
years ago I set up at an event next to a guy who had gotten laid off at his
day job and thought it was a good time to go into blacksmithing full time.
He got it into his head that he needed to be fast, so he worked on speed.
The problem was he was sacrificing quality for speed, he had a lot of
product, but none of it was marketable.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

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From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Starting up

I have a whole notebook full of rough sketches of the various techniques
and exercises, but they are not nearly good enough for illustration in a
book.  I'm probably good enough to illustrate it by hand, but not nearly
fast enough.  Were I to do it that way, I'd be be in a cold hell,
sipping tea with all my buddies for a long time before I was finished.

Generally speaking, I'm a slow goer, unlike people with real talent who
knock stuff out in their sleep.