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another day to draw grab your tools whatever speaks to you today consider changing it up for your free time today switching to a new tool is a great way to get through the initial scrape with the first few minutes of drawing something about the unfamiliar tactile experience distracts the mind with new input and numbs the narrative of boredom and Monday morning mediocrity that usually runs there use the minds special interest in change to your advantage it really does feel like something is changing doesn't it maybe it always feels like that maybe it always feels like that to everyone but it does feel I don't know if you agree it feels like there is a big turning happening amongst artists which again I guess that shouldn't be surprising right artists are in the business of changing and pivoting and doing those new things it feels like we're all trying collectively to take a big step am i barking up the wrong tree here feels like people want more from their practice these days maybe more is the wrong word and they want something different from their practice I think people still get on this train with dreams of getting a particular job or reaching a particular status but the gas in that tank seems to run out a little faster these days it makes sense we're not fools we see the world is changing around us every other industry is constantly turning over and pivoting and bucking wildly why would ours be any different maybe the realm of art has a little license to a special nostalgia here since there is an idea of what it is to be an artist that is supported by some 5000 odd years of art history and the same really can't be said for software development and the industry trends towards change are certainly very interesting but they're only half the story I mean there's a lot to be said and discussed about like AI replacing a lot of initial design work and commercial artist positions but the other implicit half of that story is how that will condition particular mental shifts in the art world it's not just that we will see these algorithms rising up it's also that that will challenge us to edify our own humanity and ask ourselves how important that humanity really was to us in art the whole time should be careful with how I say that I guess obviously our humanity is always important to us in art but I don't think we can imagine how thoroughly that will be challenged until we see how good things like a eyes will actually get right when their results start getting hauntingly close to ours and there are some hints that an unsuspecting human party might actually get an emotional tug or some strong feeling from this artificially produced art I don't think we're able to imagine that now I think that that will ask bigger questions of us than we can fathom at the moment and I think it's hard to look down the current of technological advance and not feel the need to lean into the personal aspects of the art and it's not something as small as a career challenge that's triggering that that's a that's an existential challenge that's a core challenge as an aside I wouldn't worry too much about the career threats from pay I they take over the iterative incremental parts of design you just go up a level to be the person wielding the AI and having the larger leaping bounding ideas and if that stuff goes too well it's not your problem once it crosses that threshold it's everyone's problem at that point the artists are the least of our economic concerns but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it this is all just change and there's nothing to be afraid of in change change is the due course of the universe and is the process that has brought every joyful thing into our lives besides artists are masters of change seen as a process the skill of drawing is the skill of very carefully controlling the nature of changes occurring to a piece of paper over a period of time to understand something like the nature of contrast one of the foundations of art is to understand the nature of change the nature of the way perception changes as it goes from element to element all the skills of draftsmanship actually teach you something of the nature of change and those nature's are universal they can be creatively applied anywhere once grasped not just drawing things getting too rigid gotta loosen up get more gesture in it not too much though things always in balance keep your straights against your curves need the light to look lighter without actually touching it make the dark starker need that dark to look lighter tone down the light made a mistake establish your recourse erase and change it know that the process contains changes that can be unexpected lines and forms that seem absurdly over energetic or exaggerated you refine them a bit em they fall flat lesson there always go a little further than you think you need to because change will happen those aren't really drawing lessons that's just a frame we hang them in those are life lessons lessons on change on how things are perceived how they apply to your life I'll leave up to you it's up to each individual artist to decide how and where they ply their trade and they get to draw the line wherever they want but don't tell yourself the mind that has been taught to intake abstract edit output and beautify something is foundational as visual impressions is not well capable of doing it to other things including itself learn to trust this ability within yourself this is what's going to help you survive a lifetime of changes career and otherwise you need to be a master of change a master of contrast and all its varying degrees and the play that lives between them you don't have any robots to worry about if you're working on that paying attention to that practicing that because to live from this place is to be an artist in all things to be your role by the natural course of your life not just when the pen is in hand right now the pen is in hand you've just about reached ten minutes of drawing now whether you keep drawing or cap the pen know that as you go forward the way of the practice has not ended your role goes on wherever you go you witness the nature of that place and that is the raw material of the artist that you then go and change into art even if you're working on things completely wild and fantastical you can't even imagine you can't fathom how closely linked it is with your experience thank you for practicing art today you're keeping this ancient dream alive the dream that people might have enough support enough food and enough time to spend a little time each day for themselves in a place that is all themselves how very unselfish of you that's a great dream to keep in the world let's draw again soon