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About evolving and frustration. The 4 stages of learning: 1. Not knowing that you don't know how to do something. 2. Knowing that you don't know how to do something. 3. Knowing that you know how to do something, even if it takes a lot of effort to apply it. 4. Unconscious knowledge - you can apply what you've learned without thinking about it. 5. Mastering a skill. The distance between these steps can go fast or take a really long time. It is not unusual to feel extremely frustrated just when we are about to take the next step forward. SO FRUSTRATION IS A SIGN OF PROGRESS. Therefore frustration is your friend.

When browsing on DA I find a lot of people worrying about the same things I do, somedays a little more and somedays a little less. You see great art from people who have been to art school, drawn for years, maybe decades and you think "Man.... I am never going to be this good, why even try." And then you can go sitt on a couch and stuff your face with chocolate bars and dwell in a pool of selfpity and depression. You see your own work and all you see are the things that are just not good enough. I think that's my least favourite words in any language "not good enough". And sometimes that is true, your work just is not good enough.... today, b

I just came back from a holiday in Rome and I have to tell you it was spectacular. The Vatican museums wich I was told is the 5th largest museum in the world and the St. Peters Basilica which is the largest church in the world (I am talking huuuugee here people!) it just blows your mind away. Also the city itself is full of art history. When walking in the center of Rome anything can come around the corner, the Colosseo, the Forum Romanum, Fontana di Trevi etc. I saw so many amazing sculpture and paintings by Bernini, Michelangelo, Caravaggio etc. and of course the famous Sisteen Chapel. I ate a lot of delicious italian gelato (ice cream) and