You’ll suck at what you do, for a long time, but…

[First posted at RamblingLibrarian, 18 Mar 2007]

Who’s Ira Glass? Nevermind. Watch this video first (hat-tip to David Silver). David wrote that it’s “five minutes and nineteen seconds of smart advice“.

I’ve transcribed the parts which I felt was the essence of the video (read this post). My personal take-away: We’ll suck at what we do, probably for a long time. But that’s no excuse to not try, and try again. There’s no short-cut getting from here to good.

Watercolour pencil demo: Flickr post from Graphicartepsi

Here’s a Flickr post from Graphicartepsi, who wrote: “A watercolor pencil demo originally done for my North Light book, Watercolor Pencil Magic.”

Click on the image to view the picture in Flickr, where there are notes to explain how parts of the painting is done with the watercolour pencils.