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Objective: Creation and art skills are embedded subconsciously. You create from a place of mind-body connection where the technical components of creating art are no longer a conscious activity.

The first step in the creative process is often the one everyone wants to skip. Building your skillset is all about learning and practicing each of the techne of art until you master them. Many artists want to skip this step, often because they can copy or mimic from reference materials.

However, when they try to create original works of art, they find they cannot translate what they see in their head to paper. This is caused by a lack of technical skill and muscle memory between the eyes, the hand, the arm, and the mind. Like practicing the piano, an artist's ability to create comes from practicing a skill over and over again until they no longer need to consciously think about the skill in order to execute it.

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This seems daunting, but consider when you first began driving a car. The first time you drove you were overwhelmed by everything you had to do. You had to force yourself to push the gas, look at the rear-view mirror, turn the wheel, hit the blinker, watch your speed, stay in your lane. It was a lot! Each action you had to think about consciously. You'd say to yourself "Put on the blinker. Hit the brake. Watch that blue car, it looks a little iffy."

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However, now, after years of driving, sometimes you get in the car and arrive at your destination without even realizing you drove! Your subconscious can now drive the car.

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This is the point you need to arrive at when creating art as a professional artist. You need an autopilot for artistic concepts.

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Before you panic, we can break this objective of mastery down even further:

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