Copy Your Hero- Austin Kleon-Steal Like An Artist

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Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are.
In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. 
We learn by copying.
We’re talking about practice here, not plagiarism—plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering.
First, you have to figure out who to copy.
 Second, you have to figure out what to copy.
Who to copy is easy. You copy your heroes—the people you love, the people you’re inspired by, the people you want to be.  What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.
The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds.
A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we’re incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.
So: Copy your heroes.
Examine where you fall short. What’s in there that makes you different? That’s what you should amplify and transform into your own work.

In the end, merely imitating your heroes is not flattering them. Transforming their work into something of your own is how you flatter them.

Kpd. RKW
17-21


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