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What are your strengths and weaknesses as an artist? (Original Post)
bif
Apr 2024
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Strengths:
Composition. Color matching. Curiosity.
Weaknesses:
Impatience. Drawing people and faces. Shading and blending.
FalloutShelter
(12,844 posts)2. I'll play.
Strengths: technique and drafting ability, style flexibility, perseverance.
Weaknesses: over drafting and not enough spontaneity.
Diamond_Dog
(35,199 posts)3. I don't feel as though I have any strengths!
Maybe color mixing if I had to come up with one.
Im working on getting better at doing people. I find pencil sketching much better for doing faces and paint much better for doing landscapes. Im also impatient.
Redleg
(6,250 posts)4. I can't convey on paper what I see in my head
Same goes for my writing- at least sometimes.
lastlib
(24,988 posts)5. I flunked first-grade coloring.
Haven't improved much (if any) since.
Aesthetics reside in the brain hemisphere I don't use much.