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On chapter 10 of  Steal like an artist,  Austin Kleon states that we should choose what to leave out, to put limitations on personal work of regardless of what it is. Constraints help us because we get a lack of resources, and that helps us by figuring out what we can do, we adapt. It's sort of like the quote from Bruce Lee  " I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times. " We are just perfecting ourselves and adapting to problems by having limitations. I originally painted the spider–man below with watercolor paint. Now i want to do a Stencil graffiti style canvas, so im allowing my self to only use 4–5 layer stencil. With limited colors since there is not a lot of mixing in spray paint. so here is what i got so far. It took me a while to re-draw it in another larger paper, and from there i had to trace it, but what takes the most time is cutting the cardboard. 

On chapter 8 of  Steal like an artist,  Austin Kleon states that we should live our ordinary and boring life, that going out, hooking up and getting high is over rated. He also states that we should learn about how to hold and save money, and to have a day job in order to make a little money. Also to mark things out in life for example get a calendar for future events and a logbook to keep us on track on what we worked on. And lastly he says that we should marry carefully, to find someone who is willing to put up with us and hold us down. Like i said before Kleon said that we should have a routine. My routine consist of going to school and work on school work before i head to work. I usually head to work after school, but after work I tend to go to the gym for 2 hours. afterwards I go home sleep, but on my days off is where i try to do some art or my hobbies that i have. I tend to use the calendar on my phone to stay on top of thinks like appointments, events and projects. ...

On chapter 8 of Steal like an artist, Austin Kleon states that we should make friends and ignore the enemies, to keep our heads up and ignore the haters. That we should write fan letters to our heroes even if they don't reply, and to always keep the compliment of the people if we get e–mails from them, and deleting the nasty ones. On page 102, the author suggests that we follow people who are way smarter than us. Ironically I been doing that for the past couple of years. I have 2 friends who I consider successful hustlers; they both own business and seem to be doing great. One of them is Jilani, he owns a used car dealer ship and also owns a couple of houses that he uses to rent out. His favorite phrase is "  scared money makes no money." My other friend owns a video game store named WE PLAY GAMES , his name is Victor and he always tells me to never burn bridges even if we don't like them, because we never know when we might need their connections. This examples don...

On chapter 6 of  Steel like an artist,  the author states that we don't have to be anywhere to start connecting with the world we want to be part of. He states that our inspiration can be found online, that we can make a little place our own, but doesn't mean that the geography has nothing to do with anything. He claims that we should leave the place we are currently on and live somewhere else. Experience something we are not comfortable with. We can only do so much to make our brain uncomfortable, that doesn't mean its impossible. This brings me to my previous blog post. We can pick up a new hobby, for example i want to learn to play a guitar. When i didn't have time to draw or paint, I started to write poetry and thats a whole other type of art genre, but it helps. The author claims to surround our selves with interesting people. The best way to meet interesting people its to just be social. Go out with friends in the bars,  you never know who you are gonna meet, go...

On chapter 6 of Steel like an artist, the author states that we shouldn't rush to make it big as an artist as soon as we leave school. He said that we should take our time and focus on our art and perfect our style. We have the opportunity to grow our skill before we get it out, and that brings me to his next point. He says that we should have a presence online where we try and wonder about things that others don't. that we should try and focus that instead of following the flow. Also a kick in the pants its the almost the same meaning as the "double edge sword", or "backfiring." meaning for every action there is consequences.

On chapter 5 of  Steal Like an Artist, the author just states the importance of having many hobbies or projects to bounce in between them, and the importance of not doing anything, the author says he get most of his genius ideas when he is completely bored and to not discard our real passion because our happiness comes from that passion or hobby.     The author Austin Kleon  says “Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.” I'm a tend to be busy person, I don't really like to do nothing. I usually take the time to just focus on me, an example would be working out to stay fit and healthy and going out with friends to get a couple of drinks, but there are some days where I absolutely do nothing, usually I'm really tired so i just sleep and play video games. The author also says that it’s very important to have a hobby, and I have a couple. For starters I love to do  strength training  in order to stay physically healthy, I l...