Subject: You can”t get what you don”t want.
If you’ve picked art to spend your life on, chances are it gives you joy and satisfaction. By identifying what you really want as an artist can cut off some times wasters which doesn’t lead to your goal. After a lot of thinking I came up with this sentence’ To create and improve in art as long as I could.’
-Subject: Grow into what you want.
I’ve shared my experience of the power of affirmations and words last time, Today I would like to invite you all to my experiment starting this year(2020). But first let’s analyse a bit more on how affirmations work also why people ask you to set higher or even impossible goals. See they both a setting a frame your you to grow into, it’s like building that fence for plants to grow into. The plant can just grow where the fence ends. Same as your goals, human potential is near unlimited. If you set a small goal for yourself you’d stop growing after that goal.
-Subject: The power of words.
In case no one told you, Words are spells. Spells that cast pictures in your mind and create emotions in your brain. Swords to sting peoples feelings. “The words of a good person are like pure silver, but an evil person”s thoughts are worth very little.” -God. Why did people pay for the nike shirt that prints ‘just do it’? Because people want it’s power. By reading it and wearing it you are casting a spell on yourself you make you do the things you want.It”s a spell to direct your will power.
-Subject: Be the master of your brain.
Your brain is not designed to care for your success in life. In fact the opposite, It’s designed to ho;d you back. The brain’s factory programming is pathetic. It’s goal is to keep you safe. Which means don”t do anything dangerous in the gym, It will get you injured. Don”t talk to the girl you like because some non existent cavemans will bash your head. Don”t go outside, dinosaurs will eat you. You get the idea.
-Subject: how to look at your work.
In your art is not you, we’ve talked about your art has nothing to do with your identity, however it does hold a lot of valuable information if you can look at at calmly. I use the analogy of looking at your own poop because it does feel like that to me, but if you can handle the feeling there’s much to learn there.
-Subject: Always be ready.
One of the most memorable thing when I was a kid is watching werewolf on TV. It was very intense and really got me freaking out when the hero dropped his only sliver bullet (the only thing that could kill a werewolf.) I didn’t the ending but one thing is for sure, he isn’t a very good monster hunter. You know you’re facing a powerful werewolf and you only got one sliver bullet? How will the movie go if he had three bullets? It’s going to be a short movie.
-Subject: The most art friendly food.
As an artist we are actually more physical and energy draining then most people think. I remember the first time I’ve done a 6 hour tattoo section it felt like a few hours in the gym and my mind went blank. Also my arm got sore, so I’d say it’s not that far off comparing art with sports plus your brain needs a lot of energy to do all that image processing. So what food could fix our muscles(protein) and reload our brain(fats)?
-Subject: Learn how to use our asset.
What is the most valuable asset of an artist? Is it the eye or the drawing hand? although both are definitely very important. The best asset is gonna be Time. But there’s a catch, Your brain needs to learn to spend that time on your important task.Because even you think art is very important your brain might have other priorities.
- Subject: getting good at art.
You have a ok job, you eat ok food, and ok sleep, You want to get good at art, but you don't have much time on it and do some yoyo drawings but they look ok right? Ok is not good enough. ok is the killer of greatness. The first step to change is telling yourself is not ok. As always I won’t throw problems out without answers let’s see how do we fix this.
-Subject: Sleep well live well.
I’ve had troubles sleeping since forever. I have important task to do the next day I went to bed early but I just can’t sleep I tried melatonin, warm showers, music you name it I tried it, nothing worked. But it all comes to one detail. I breath with my mouth when I sleep because my nose will be stuck somehow while I sleep. Then the came across this trick to clear the nose and makes you breath from your nose.
Subject: The 10,000 hour rule.
I started drawing from a young age around 5, And I’ve spent most of my time in school drawing, All my workbook and worksheets from school are full of drawings, My teacher will take my drawings and throw them away which is fine since I am the ‘I hate my work’ type. I notice training what I want is way more important then anything school is teaching. Luckily I got into an art focused college but even you are art focused in Hong Kong it only means four extra art class per week not like Math you have lessons everyday. If I take the lunch hour away and say 4 hours of drawing at school everyday plus weekends 10 years of primary plus college gives me around 14,600 hours on drawing.
-Subject: Learning from the masters.
Frank frazetta is the best master level artist close to our times. In fact he just left us at 2010. Ten years has passed but his art is looking better then ever, His art style is masculine and aggressive, the beauty of violence and sex can been seen in many of his work. Today I’d dissect his art and analyse how he gives that aggressive taste to his works.
-Subject Mandalorian tattoo design.
Hey people today is part 1 of my mandalorian tattoo design process. In this stage I focus on the composition and the shapes of the design which are fundamental skills. I decided it will be a left upper arm piece. I extracted the shape from the arm and came up with 3 designs.
-from your buddy Dinlee
-Subject: How to dominate your mind every time.
We are constantly at war with our minds, I love drawing but I also don’t like drawing could be voices in your head the same time. It’s you that needs to outsmart your mind and make it serve you. With this practice I owned the mind every time I applied this trick, every time I forgot to use it I ended up wasting time. Let’s begin.
-from the recently arranged desk of Dinlee
-Subject: 3 viewing distance of a tattoo piece.
If you break it down a ‘good’ tattoo is a collection of marks made on the skin which reads as a picture which could be experienced by the viewer’s eyes and process with the brain, A good tattoo traps the eye in it’s narrative and rewards the viewer with more information if you look closer
from the messy art desk of dinlee.
Subj- The fundamentals of Art & Tattooing.
If you are taking tattooing seriously you have to understand the importance of art fundamentals. Artist are like the graphics are in your PC, training and building up your fundamentals will upgrade you as a graphics card to GTX-ARTMASTER and allow you to ‘render’ higher quality art. The old masters or your favorite did them for years and years, and it also unlocks your path to the next level very fast.
