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, and all three of us are professional illustrators. We've all

worked for all the major publishers in the business. Together,

we've published somewhere around 75 children's books, and we've all taught illustration at

university art schools. Each week we take listener questions or do fantastic interviews with

awesome illustrators. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we argue, but each time you learn something,

brand spanking new.

Brand spanking new, and I've got a great question for us to kick it off today.

This comes from Eric, and he says, not all practice created equal.

It's a question based on something he heard to say once before.

So he says, I once heard Jake explain that all practice is not created equal.

And he says, you were talking about the 10,000 hour concept and made this point.

Can you expand on that?

On YouTube, Peter Hahn demonstrates a warm-up,

he calls dynamic sketching, clearly a form of practice. Do you guys ever use anything like that,

or have you ever? For someone learning to draw, what type of practice should they avoid?

What kind of things should they practice if they want to expand their style? So lots of questions

right there.

What if we do some quick hits on those, each one of us?

Because that might be valuable for him to get like three different opinions on each one really

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