tipsforarchitectureschool: #33 What do you want for your birthday?  BOOKS. Invest in some books.  While the internet does provide as an excellent place to research and look things up, a book provides a different experience which is more autotelic in nature.  There are also things in books which you cannot find on the internet and NEVER WILL.  The personal library you construct over time should consist of books that inspire you and have pictures and articles which make you think.  You can also physically trace out of books which is an excellent way to practice drawing.  Tracing and copying from books is one of the quickest ways to yield efficient habits when learning how to illustrate.  “But isn’t that plagiarism?”  It is only plagiarism if you copy something and call it your own.  In fact, Hunter S. Thompson once re-typed the Great Gatsby to see how it felt to type a novel.  So books are great in many ways, and 10 years from now when the web hosting for the site you “bookmarked” a great image you liked has been long expired, you will still have that book you thought you would “never use so much”.   3 things to always do with your books: Reference them. Write in them. Pass them down to people who can really use them.  Trust me, you will know when and who to give it to when the time comes.

tipsforarchitectureschool:

#33 What do you want for your birthday?  BOOKS.

Invest in some books.  While the internet does provide as an excellent place to research and look things up, a book provides a different experience which is more autotelic in nature.  There are also things in books which you cannot find on the internet and NEVER WILL.  The personal library you construct over time should consist of books that inspire you and have pictures and articles which make you think.  You can also physically trace out of books which is an excellent way to practice drawing.  Tracing and copying from books is one of the quickest ways to yield efficient habits when learning how to illustrate.  “But isn’t that plagiarism?”  It is only plagiarism if you copy something and call it your own.  In fact, Hunter S. Thompson once re-typed the Great Gatsby to see how it felt to type a novel. 

So books are great in many ways, and 10 years from now when the web hosting for the site you “bookmarked” a great image you liked has been long expired, you will still have that book you thought you would “never use so much”.  

3 things to always do with your books:

  1. Reference them.
  2. Write in them.
  3. Pass them down to people who can really use them.  Trust me, you will know when and who to give it to when the time comes.

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