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Aug 11, 2023, 11:40 AM
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Member Since: Aug 2013
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In a look about period with regards to practicing drawing. It's something I'll be a beginner at for a long time. Darren Fisher parlayed a practice of doodling into a PhD and now career rebooting people's drawing practice, said this:
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So choose an art style you love and copy it. Encourage children to while away hours drawing. Don’t worry about how it turns out. Prioritise the conscious experience of drawing over the result.
With regular practice, you may find yourself occasionally melting into states of “flow”, becoming wholly absorbed. A small, regular pocket of time to temporarily escape the busy world and enter a flow state via drawing may help you in other parts of your life.
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Drilling down.- Choose an art style you love ... Right now, it'll be single panel New Yorker style snapshots of living or creative insight.
- Copy it. Permission to copy! Mimic! Lookalike! Style self after ...
- Encourage children to draw. Well, encourage everyone to draw is better phrased.
- Don't worry about how it will turn out. This is THE SWITCH that stopped most people around the age of 8. Stopped me, for sure. Other kids could draw, I couldn't. Instead of worrying ... celebrate how it turns out. Find one line, one shading, one curve where the improvement arrive this time. And make a new drawing right away with tweaks.
- Prioritise the experience of drawing. The conscious deliberate experience. This is building out fresh neural tracks. Let it happen.
- A regular practice ... a regular pocket of time ... and maybe you might glide into the long sort flow state.
Today's task is finding the Staedler non-photo blue pencil. Or Prismacolor Verithin. The idea is that you use the blue pencil to sketch first then overdraw in black the lines you like. When scanned the blue wouldn't show up. Turns out that modern scanners DO see the blue, but I guess I'll find out. Review by someone stalking Lynda Barry's syllabus AND lives in Seattle!
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