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17 years ago
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So a little while back I tried to get into drawing. I was using this book to teach myself - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-right-brain-Betty-Edwards/dp/087477523X/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231822061&sr=8-12
It actually does a good job of teaching someone the basics of drawing. Though this book is focused on drawing stuff that you can see in front of you, rather than creating stuff from your imagination.
I picked up a lot of good tips from it, but I have found that the actual procedure of drawing itself is very difficult for me. Sitting there and putting pencil to paper is just a mental process that I have a lot of difficulty with. I just get stressed out or a headache if I'm trying to work on a drawing for a while. I'm trying to find that "flow" when I draw but results have been very inconsistent as far as that goes.
Though I did successfully draw a few things that I'll be posting to scraps sometime soon. I'll likely try drawing again in the future, but for now I'm trying to get into writing this short dirty story I'm working on... See how well I do with the writing thing instead,
I have an odd love/hate relationship with drawings. While I'm drawing, I love it, and I like going through the whole process. Once I'm done, I look at what I need to improve, I think about what specifically to do to practice that, I put the pencil and paper down... And I can't bring myself to draw again for several months. Even though a part of me really wants to.
And yeah, I'd always start a drawing based on a model. Once you've drawn that type of thing once or twice, you have a better idea of what it should look like, and you can try your hand at drawing one from memory. But until you've drawn it from a reference, there are a ton of details that won't even occur to you.
See ya at FC?
Too bad I didn't catch this before FC. I coulda hung out a bit (!!!) and swapped sketch books.