The Sport of Art

Name: The Sport of Art
Uploaded: 2024-05-22T16:00:18+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: In this monologue, Ryan Maloney likens learning to draw to learning baseball, arguing that both rely on relentless repetition. He describes how, after…

22 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Ryan Maloney likens learning to draw to learning baseball, arguing that both rely on relentless repetition. He describes how, after baseball practice, he would return home and draw the same elements—noses, mouths, eyes—over and over, producing hundreds or thousands of studies and then combining them. He stresses that drawing, like sport, requires starting out looking foolish, persisting through massive practice, and treating creation as a disciplined, repetitive activity.

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Repetition, repetition, repetition. When I was learning how to draw, I was also learning how to play baseball. During the day, I'd go to baseball practice, and the way you got better at your swings was just to swing over and over and over. So when I got home at night and I was learning how to draw, I would just draw things over and over and over. I saw no difference between art and sport. It was all just repetition. Starting off, look like a fool, and just keep working through it. I would draw hundreds, if not thousands, of noses and mouths and eyes and then combine them all together. Drawing and creating is just a sport.