{"id":6916,"date":"2024-01-10T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2024-01-10T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T05:00:31","slug":"drawing-every-day-2024-post-ten-moar-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/10\/drawing-every-day-2024-post-ten-moar-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"[drawing every day 2024 post ten]: moar hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned-508x800.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6917\" width=\"717\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned-508x800.png 508w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned-254x400.png 254w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned-768x1209.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned-976x1536.png 976w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned-640x1008.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Day-010-Cleaned.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still working through the Goldman book, which has the inspirational quote: &#8220;I hope you wear this book out from overuse!&#8221; And that&#8217;s what you need when you&#8217;re practicing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P.S. My wife and I were talking about learning skills, and she complained that she hadn&#8217;t quite gotten what she wanted to out of a recent set of books. It occurred to me that there are two situations in which reading books about a skill doesn&#8217;t help you: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It can be you haven&#8217;t yet found the right book, course or teacher that breaks it down in the right way (for me in music, for example, it was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcourses.com\/courses\/understanding-the-fundamentals-of-music.html\">Understanding the Fundamentals of Music<\/a>&#8221; which finally helped me understand the harmonic progression, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circle_of_fifths\">the circle of fifths<\/a>, and scales, and even then I had to read it twice).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It can be because you&#8217;re not doing enough of the thing to know the right questions to ask, which means you may not recognize the answers when they&#8217;re given to you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both of these are related to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zone_of_proximal_development\">Vygotsky&#8217;s Zone of Proximal Development<\/a> &#8211; you can most easily learn things that  are related to what you already know. Without a body of practice at a skill, reading up on it can sometimes turn into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterhelp.com\/advice\/psychologists\/what-is-armchair-psychology-and-why-should-i-avoid-it\/\">armchair quarterbacking <\/a>and doesn&#8217;t help you (and can sometimes even hurt you); with a body of practice, it turns into something closer to an <a href=\"https:\/\/storelli.com\/blogs\/the-storelli-blog\/watching-football-footage\">athlete watching game footage<\/a> to improve their own game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So! Onward with the drawing. Hopefully some of the drawing theory will stick this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still working through the Goldman book, which has the inspirational quote: &#8220;I hope you wear this book out from overuse!&#8221; And that&#8217;s what you need when you&#8217;re practicing! -the Centaur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[260,71],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-sketchworks","tag-drawing-every-day","tag-exploration-of-intelligence","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6918,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions\/6918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}