Changing this attitude after half a lifetime is something I have been wanting to do. Not drawing has affected a great deal of my creative efforts, and not in a good way. There are so many creative ideas I have that would really benefit if I would just pick up a pencil, pen, crayon, or lipstick and draw with them! So, this has been one of my personal challenges this year - to not say, "I can't draw." Instead, I would like to embrace the concept of "This is how I draw." I want to try to recover that quality children have of just doing. It may not be the greatest technique or style, but it will be my technique and my style.
This pencil drawing will be continued...
nd very curiously, since few months, I stitch , and I must notice that although I never draw on fabrics before stitching...the results are quite good !
ReplyDeleteMay I say iam better when drawing with a needdle than whith apencil ? ?
This is the same attitude I'm trying to cultivate with my drawing too! Well said.
ReplyDeleteWe can all draw! Drawing is making marks that discribe our sensibilities. We just have so many preconcieved ideas about what drawing looks like, and we learn early to stomp on our own efforts when they fall outside the preconception.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky enough to have a teacher who told me that learning to draw is really about learning to see. If you can learn to really look at things and see what is there (not what you THINK is there) and then develop a vocabulary of marks that interperate it... you are drawing.
Go for it!
You have voiced my exact feelings about drawing. I have always wanted to learn and express myself in this way, but never felt I had it in me. What an admirable goal you have set for yourself. And you are doing it. Keep going!
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