Stop & Post February 2012

[Barb]

ZEBtoonz, I like this--I like your style. Can I be you when I grow up?

[ZEBtoonz]

ZEBtoonz, I like this--I like your style. Can I be you when I grow up?

Sure you can, Barb! You can be anything you want to be but you can only be one person, yourself. But I suppose you meant my artistic skill. Sure, it's all yours for the taking! Just draw and doodle and have fun and observe others stuff that you like and want to learn from. Why reinvent the wheel when there are those around you doing stuff you like? Figure out how they did and what it is that you like about it, then try to recreate it. You'll learn lots along the way.

[wizard509]

Good advice Zeb. I know when I was delineating we all learned from each other. If I saw something I liked I remembered and tried to do maybe one little part of it. If I liked it I remembered it and if I didn't I promptly for got it. Eventually those things built up in my memory bank and skills. It wasn't copying just building up techniques that became my mine, by that I mean I would put my own twist on it and made it useful to me.
First you learn the rules then when you become proficient you can successfully break the rules. It's all part of learning your chosen craft.