Why art is frustrating
I was asked this by a friend. Why is art so frustrating? Good question.
It didn’t take me long to find an answer however. I have been over this question several times with myself already. I am the sort of personal perfectionist that given any task, I can master it very quickly. That is, if I put my full mind to it. However this only applies to left brain tasks, or logical step by step tasks. Perhaps being able to add or remove steps here and there, but all point a, to b, to c, to d.
Art, isn’t a simple step by step process. However much one wishes it could be. In fact it does not really have ‘steps’ at all except for the levels of build up (skeleton -> sketch -> re-sketch -> ink -> color). But this helps little with the actual process of doing each of those steps. Logical thinking is all step to step thinking. Sort of like a computer. You do this, then this, and then this. Creative thinking is more of a big picture, creating connections, and the like. Needless, we would be lost without either side. However the right (creative) brain rarely gets exercised as much as the left.
Because of this we are usually left with childlike ability in drawing, since that is usually when we ‘stop’ to goto school. Not to say schools don’t have art classes. But they do little to actually develop the creative right brain, instead focusing on much less frustrating left brain ‘artistic tasks’. Such as paper-mache, or other crafts.
The only way to get around this is to exercise the right brain. Drawing aimlessly and losing track of time in the process usually involves this. Its hard work, and you need to do it daily to ‘catch’ up. Even if it is non-sensual drawings. Other types usually involve visualizing objects in 3D and drawing them. Drawing what you see. Coming up with creative designs for whatever your interest is (cars, bikes, planes, birds, clothing, computers, etc).
P.S. There are other things that are also frustrating to learn, but not because of creativity requirements, but due to the scope of knowledge required. Such as language learning, and other areas you know little in (this is also another reason for art, studying anatomy helps, but isn’t as beneficial as observation).
June 18th, 2010 - 22:26
Can’t find a contact email for you, so hopefully this will alert you. Anyway, I saw your forum post from last October about getting save files from HeartGold and SoulSilver. Yours is the only method that claims to be able to get the files without physically modifying the cart to get normal access to the eeprom. Could you explain what you did?
June 19th, 2010 - 10:10
Oh hi, hrm. It doesn’t seem to work with newer versions of devkitpro, but I wrote some of the keys the game uses to to the spi rom switch.
Just run a debugger over a rom and capture inputs for the spi interface registers.
40001A0 40001A1 … etc. There should be one that looks something like. 4A36551 or something (that isn’t it) and that is the number you are looking for. That same register will have something like 4A10000 on it as well (that also isn’t exactly it, I cannot remember the actual numbers).
Before reading from the eeprom, I just wrote that number to the register that the game does and ‘sometimes’ you will be able to access the eeprom. Given certain circumstances.