[B]ad drawing springs from basic faults as surely as good drawing springs from basic merits.
– Andrew Loomis
One of the most critical fundamentals of draftsmanship is perspective. You really cannot draw much without it. Even an expert understanding of anatomy will be worthless unless combined with a basic understanding of perspective. Fortunately […]

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The good men may do separately, is small compared with what they may do collectively.
— Benjamin Franklin
One of the misleading things about attributing greatness to a person is that we often give too much credit. Thomas Edison is credited […]

Mission accomplishment is the primary objective of Marine Corps leadership. To reinforce this prioritization, the Marine Corps gives each Marine a steady stream of ongoing professional military education. For enlisted Marines, it starts with bootcamp, extends to Marine Combat Training, then to the Marine’s military occupational specialty school. A Marine can […]

But I know that I can simulate those traits through hard work. We all can.
Corey pointed me to an article on Scientific American’s site about the link between beliefs about the fixedness of intelligence and actual achievement. Here is my favorite excerpt:

In the growth mind-set classes, students read and discussed an article entitled “You […]

Cam started a discussion about authenticity, transparency, honesty and doing the right thing. He quoted Seth Godin’s book “All Marketers are Liars,” which is probably my favorite marketing book. Being familiar with the book, I jumped into the conversation. The book is not about lying, by the way, it’s about authentic […]

My wife sent me a link to an article on Yahoo about the “One Laptop per Child” project. You can read the article here:
Donate One Laptop per Child, Get One
In a nutshell if you buy a laptop for $400, a laptop will be sent to you and a laptop will be sent to a […]

Eighteen years ago today the Berlin Wall became irrelevant. I was in Berlin when it happened. About one million people from east block nations, starving for freedom, flooded into West Berlin in a matter of hours. The whole city was “standing room only” as people exercised the kind of freedom that […]

Seth Godin wrote an interesting article about the value of going to a big name school versus a lesser-name school that set my gears in motion. In it he writes:

There’s no question that a Harvard degree helps (or is even required) in a few fields. There’s also no doubt that spending four years at […]

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It is very probable—almost certain—that the great mass of men . . .were utterly unconscious, that their conditions, or their minds were capable of improvement. They not only looked upon the educated few as superior beings; but they supposed […]

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Part 3 of 3: Proof of Knowledge
Not every college is going to give credit for learning to draw and animate (although mine did so it’s not unheard of). I advocate that where the credetial isn’t required, evidence of expertise is all that is needed. Still, one may argue that […]