HOT SHOT 20- Don’t let negative comments stop you from Sketching and MY UPCOMING WORKSHOP!
HOT SHOT 20
20. Never let people’s comments disturb, discourage or distract you. Especially when you start, just keep at it….I have always noticed a few people come around with a few sketches and then they stop because someone said something derogatory.
Adebanji Alade 2000
Adebanji Alade 2001
For this post I have decided to put some sketches from 2000-2014, these sketches were just picked randomly…..sometimes I’m moving forward, sometimes I’m moving backward, but one thing is clear I don’t STOP! I just keep on going and that’s the right attitude to have, even when faced with negative comments.
Adebanji Alade 2002
Adebanji Alade 2003
There is nothing so deadly and there is nothing so devastating……than to stop a good job you started because someone said something negative about your progress.
Adebanji Alade 2004
Adebanji Alade 2005
Look, we are all prone to mistakes, we are all prone to errors, but there is none so perfect among us that cannot be tutored or corrected or taught a little bit more than what or where they are now.
Adebanji Alade 2006
Adebanji Alade 2007
We need constructive criticism to excel; we need a bit of honest advice to move our work to the next level, as artists. So it is very important that we get someone, an artist, a mentor, someone we admire, who we know, will be able to tell us the honest, blatant truth. This is the only way we can advance!
Adebanji Alade 2008
Adebanji Alade 2009
We all need coaches! People who can see potential in us and be patient enough to help us through the fitting period, the despairing moments, the valleys of our lives and still never give up on us!
Adebanji Alade 2010
Adebanji Alade 2011
I was lucky to have people who helped me through my roughest moments, gave me the desire to move on and the hunger to ask and go for more! Those are the kind of people that we have to discover, fetch them out and get close to them so that we can be confident that we are making the right progress at the right time and at the right pace.
Adebanji Alade 2012
BUT BEWARE OF PEOPLE- who are dream stealers, who can never see anything good in what you do. They have no skill and wisdom to offer a right level of direction. They don’t know the weight of negative words. They probably are negative and struggling themselves. This could be the real reason why they never see anything good in what others do.
Adebanji Alade 2013
You have to be BIG enough not to allow a careless comment, a careless statement or one of those sharp razor cutting criticisms to STOP YOUR PROGRESS WHILE DEVELOP YOUR SKETCHES.
Adebanji Alade 2014
I cannot say this more! SKETCHING, real OBSERVATION SKETCHING FROM LIFE, will give life, courage, confidence and positive spirit to whatever you do in representational art! You’ll be able to take on any subject matter with so much confidence!
I hope you have got the point and are ready to take the jump and keep it going! Sometimes even our own negative comments can be the devastating blow! So be careful what you say, be POSITIVE, stay FRESH, keep FIT and DO IT EVERYDAY!!!
One Day Workshop: Get Ready To Discover How To
Paint A Convincing And Expressive Urban Landscape
Here Is Glimpse Of What You Will Learn On The Day:
- How to paint convincing and expressive Urban landscapes-indoors.
- What to look for outdoors to give your indoor paintings that spark of the outdoors!
- Making colour notes.
- The importance of an abstract pattern with a very good value plan.
- Approaching your painting with a layering and corrective process with the mind of a sketcher.
- How to scale your pictures to suit the size of the ground you are going to be working on. Both the traditional way and with the Accurasee App.
- How to put figures and cars into the painting through the silhouette method without getting bogged down with much detail.
- How to simplify perspective in three simple steps.
- The best times to take pictures.
- Making your painting a personal statement and developing a painters shorthand that suggests rather than copies.
- And most importantly, get direction and help from Adebanji while you work on your paintings after the break.
Date & Venue
Date: Wednesday 29th October 2014, 10am – 4pm
Venue: Harris Academy, Falconwood, DA16 2PE
Free parking available.
Tea and Coffee Provided. Pls bring your packed lunch.
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waiting for your tutorials for a long time!
Sorry for the delay, I’ll do my best to make them more regular
Hi Adebanji, I enjoyed watching your new hotspot very much. It deals with such an important issue! Thank you for your encouraging words. Especially when one just begins to try something new, like sketching, one might think that everybody else knows better than oneself. This makes it very difficult to see the difference you mentioned between constructive criticism and discouraging comments. Plus, especially in the field of art there are so many different approaches and “tastes”. So it’s really a pity if someone stops doing what he or she loves to do, just because not everybody likes the results. There might always be someone who doesn’t like the results! I think what you say is also true for finding a good teacher, or maybe I should better say a teacher with an approach right for the person in question. I am very lucky in this respect, as I came across you blog plus recently attended a workshop with a wonderful teacher here in my country. And I hope one day I will be able to come to England to attend one of your workshops!
You are right Anne, You never know I might be in your country in the nearest future! I hope you Keep enjoying what you do!
Hi Adebanji!!! and thanks again for the so encouraging and helpful hotshots.
Actually this came right in time when I was quiet disappointed looking back to my painting exercises, over 3 years now. I was, in a way, ready to discourage myself looking the old with a newer eye….because even yourself can sometimes disturb, discourage or distract you!!! Thanks
You are most welcome, Christina!
Thank you, you have changed the way I look at everything.I now can see things to sketch everywhere I look.
Thanks Ken, I am happy you’ve got hooked on sketching…This is what I love to hear!!
Would have loved to join this workshop, but unfortunately, I’ve had to return to Melbourne Australia, will return in 2015.Next year perhaps?
Thanks Adebanji for the upbeat and motivational pep talk!
I’ve missed reading your Hot Shots so I’ve been back over all of your past ones and they have lost none of their excitement, you manage to shout from the pages … enjoy, sketching is good for you! You are so good at inspiring me and tons of others like me who want to learn to sketch like you. So, after rereading your Hot Spots I feel ready to sketch every day and practice all you have taught, refreshed from a bout of self doubt! Thank you. Ii hope your course went well in October and if ever you do another in the South West I would be eager to know.
Cheers all the best
Joy
Adebanji,
Man you have no idea how much your words have been resonating with me the past few days. I started a 30 day pledge to sketch everyday. I have a decent skill set to draw and sketch but lose interest when i start to judge my end results. Keep up the positive vibration. I appreciate it as I’m sure many people do.
Peace, OxHead Magoo
Online tutorial? Little expensive to shoot across the pond from the States.
Sir,
Thank you for this HOT SHOT 20 click…..I really need it…and found it when i really need it to overcome from my negativity.
With all my Heart full of Respect and Love.
Regards
Richard