Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it,

how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker.

I'm Lee White. And I'm Will Terry. All three of us are professional illustrators. We've all

published books with all the major publishers. Together we published

somewhere around 75 children's books and we've all taught illustration at university arts

schools. That's right. Each week we come at you guys with fantastic illustrator interviews and

also listener questions. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we argue, but each time you learn something

brand spanking new.

And I want to start us off with a little bit of follow-up on our episode that dropped previously.

I believe it is episode 162. This is episode 166.

Do you remember the question, do pros practice or should you practice as a professional?

And I have the benefit here where I read all the comments.

So I know what people are saying.

And I can come in and just read the ones that are positive towards me and not bring up the

So you don't see too many.

So here's the follow-up on that.

This is on the YouTube.

It says, I find it weird that Lee and Will saying you should draw a full illustration instead of practicing.

The point of practicing is to get good

fast of what you are bad at, but not wasting time on other things you're already good at. If Jake had to

draw a whole page just to practice drawing hands, he would waste a lot of time drawing everything

else on the page. By the time he finishes one page, he probably has drawn five hands in the time he could

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