The Long Haul

Drawing and Language Learning as a Way of Life. 

In a recent lesson, in my Udemy drawing course, the instructor said at the end of the lesson on drawing still life forms:

So your assignment for this lecture is to go ahead and either draw this image of the bananas which you

can download in the next lecture or even better yet.

And I really highly recommend this.

Find your own objects to draw and lay them out and go ahead and do a still life drawing of that and

try to copy exactly what you see.

Now if you really want to get really good at drawing you need to do at least 20 of these.

And if you want to get amazingly good at drawing you need to do 100 to 1000 of these.

Now I know that's a lot but some of you may not be that dedicated and that's all right.

Lesson 1 (Quote from this lesson.) 

I laughed. Yes, we can reflect why we are engaged in our art form (drawing or language), and choose how much we want to invest or ourselves.  So far, as a sister and artist of mine recently wrote in a post, sometimes our desire is so strong that even if the practice ebbs and flows, the art "will not be squashed."  I This is the case for me with language learning; will it also be be true of drawing?  

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