Practice
“The secret of success in all arts lies in practice. ”
Taken from Pen Practice by Walter Haggins, B.T Batsford Ltd.,1932 (seriously)
Something almost every art major student will know. Maybe even those highly inspired ‘gred A1′ with scholarship students of business & engineering. Do your homework & study hard. Practice, practice & more practice makes perfect.
“I am a lazy bastard.”
What I always remind myself when I am working too hard & seem to go around in the familier circle of pratice. Prior given work or assignments, sometimes, I don’t even deem it necessary to realize that practice is as important as the entire process of getting the job done as well.
The funny thing is that at most of the pratices, the same thing is praticed over & over again. The initiative of trying out something completely new most of the time is ignored. Maybe, just maybe the excuse will be “I am too busy for that.” Or perhaps the lack of guts or maybe even the laziness of starting off on unfamilier ground.
Funny; Why people think my typography is nice? I bet there are thousands of typo freaks out there who are way more better that me. I still struggle to make the type look good. Frankly, I discovered that ‘nice typography’ by mistake I could profess. I hardly spent hours at the computer trying out grids or drawing vertical lines and cutting papers, trying to stick them on my sketchbook to see the possibilities of living without the computer. Only mere minutes of fun & leisure. It was a complete ‘fun’ discovery believe me. Only minimal practice, a little of interest in it, read a little books here and there, had fun looking for FF Maiola online & hanging around people who are of same craze as you.
My question here is; “Why practice so hard?”
My answer would be; “Just for fun.” or perhaps “Maybe it’s worth it to do so.”
Believe me, it makes life much more easier.
*Edited June 20th
June 19th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
dear, i think it’s spelt ‘practice’?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:42 am
I think i need to practice to spell the word ‘practice’