Nov
5 Things Our Four Month Old Daughter Could Teach You About What It Takes To Become A Professional Illustrator
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My wife recently wrote a beautiful post over on the Location Independent Professionals Blog called ‘5 Things Our Four Month Old Could Teach You About What It Takes To Become Location Independent‘ and it got me thinking how well these same lessons apply to an aspiring illustrator.
Head on over to the Location Independent blog to read the full post, but below is a taster of what I think is the most important lesson…
There’s No Such Thing As Failure
In her short time on this Earth, Mali’s become accustomed to failure. She tries & fails frequently to roll herself off her tummy when she’s had enough tummy time, she tries & fails frequently to sit up from a supine position (those mini sit-ups get her halfway there but not all the way!) – in fact, she tries & fails at multiple things a number of times a day!
But that doesn’t stop her from trying just one more time. Not yet aware of the concept of success or failure, all she knows is to keep trying – and she keeps on doing just that.
Takeaway lesson:
In your quest to become a professional illustrator, you’ll probably experience failure at least once if not multiple times along the way. In fact, most of you probably have already – I know I certainly have.
The trick to succeeding is to keep on trying. Imagine if you had no concept of failure – you knew only one way…to keep on trying. How powerful would that be? You literally couldn’t fail. Ever. Not a bad mindset to have, is it?
I hope you enjoy the full post and it gives you as much food for thought as it did when I read it.
Next up…An Interview with comic book artist and illustrator Nic Klein
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You are sooo right.
My husband is theater teacher (improv) and the first thing he says always is that there is no error. You need to do things certain way to learn how to make them better.
This is the human way!!