Drew a dog that looked like a squashed frog at 2am and threw it in the trash

I spent like $12 on this fancy set of watercolor pencils thinking they'd magically fix my bad drawing skills. Last night I tried to sketch my neighbor's golden retriever from memory and it came out looking like a green blob with ears. The worst part is I used half the pack trying to blend colors that just made it uglier. I tossed the whole thing in the bin this morning and laughed at myself for believing good tools can fix terrible ideas. Anyone else blow cash on art supplies they realize they never needed?

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wyatta303d ago

Fancy tools can't fix bad ideas" - that's the line that got me. It's the same thing with anything really. People think buying the expensive fishing rod makes you a fisherman. Or the pricey kitchen knife makes you a chef. But it's just gear. The skill comes from failing a hundred times first. That's the real cost nobody talks about.

mason2093d ago

Wait, are you telling me that guy with the full tackle box and $500 rod actually couldn't catch anything while I was pulling in fish with my grandfather's old broken pole? Because I saw that exact thing happen last summer. Some dude shows up to the lake with all this fancy gear, spends like an hour just setting up, and then doesn't land a single fish the whole day. Meanwhile I'm over there with a worm on a hook and I'm pulling them in left and right. It's wild how people think the tool does the work for you. You still gotta know where to put the bait, when to set the hook, and how to read the water. That stuff only comes from messing up a bunch of times first.