Drawing = Frustration

Learning how to draw well is a frustrating journey.

I think we need to take hold of that frustration and embrace it! It will always feel bad, it will always make you want to snap your pencil in two, but that is part of drawing, and you have to push past that, because the more that you become frustrated at drawing something badly the better you will get at drawing that thing. Or you will think of a different way to draw that thing and start to do something "wrong" but that nobody else is doing and that is style!

This is probably best compared to learning how to draw figures and people from your imagination, When I first started to devote serious practice to that, I was horrible at it. I had pages of disfigured and ill proportioned people, and when I got frustrated I forget things that I otherwise would have known, like what side of the hand the thumb is on, or how an arm bulges, because you are trying to juggle so much information, and when you mix all that information with frustration you can either snap your pencil in two and watch television, or you can embrace the frustrations of drawing that thing and keep drawing it until you either learn how to draw it properly or find a "wrong" way to do it.