Some artists put a fantastic lot of faith in technical training,
and others have a great disrespect for it. The truth should probably
be somewhere in between. It is true that some art has a very high value of technical skill
to show, and yet may have no more artistic power than some work
done by an artist with hardly any training at all. But the following
facts modify it heavily: 1: A high level of technique convinces people to at least pay
some attention to your work. 2: If you don't know your technique, it consistently gets in the
way of your realizing your vision, and you end up with a ton of
compromises or no product at all. 3: Reseaching and learning what you can do technically will show
you and open up a lot of possibilities that you had no idea were
there. Your horizon will broaden, and you will have much less
trouble getting ideas. Drill: Think of an area in your medium(s) that you have never bothered
to learn. Then find teaching materials about it and learn it.
Learn it thoroughly. Then pick one of the ideas you got in the
process, and create a new work of art from it.
The importance of training