Learn to become a messy artist

Name: Learn to become a messy artist
Uploaded: 2024-06-02T15:30:07+00:00
Duration: 39 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: Ryan Maloney argues that messy, imperfect drawings engage audiences more than technically perfect ones. He learned this by studying Shel Silverstein's…

2 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Ryan Maloney argues that messy, imperfect drawings engage audiences more than technically perfect ones. He learned this by studying Shel Silverstein's loose, energetic illustrations and now deliberately reduces line precision in his own work. Perfectionism, he says, is just an excuse that stops creators from sharing.

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I find that the worse my drawings are, the more people respond to them. So I'm actively trying to make my drawings worse. I'm not trying to connect these lines. I'm not trying to make things perfect. I'm trying to make things a little bit messier and more primitive, trying to go back to the old school when I was learning by tracing Shel Silverstein books. His lines weren't perfect. He made a mess out of these. It was all about the energy and the words and then the pictures connecting to it a little bit. No one has ever stopped me during a reading of one of my books to question the drawings. So anytime I'm sitting around saying a drawing isn't perfect, I'm telling myself I'm wasting time. We got to get rid of this whole perfectionist thing. It's just a complete excuse to just hide behind things and not put things out.