Re:Doing Your Best and Tips on Continuous Improvement
by wallflower on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @11:46AM
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> 6. Draw something you see on TV:
If you want to improve your drawing, you have to draw daily. Just while you are idling in front of the TV, draw some scene that catches your eye. Repeat.
I have entertained fantasies of being able to setup in the city park and do caricatures or portraits for free. I will start doing this!
My art-school trained friends have tried explaining to me that art school is about learning to look. Anyone can draw squiggles. But you have to be trained (sometimes methodically, sometimes painfully, sometimes by rote) to see, to look, to observe.
I have entertained fantasies of being able to setup in the city park and do caricatures or portraits for free. I will start doing this!
My art-school trained friends have tried explaining to me that art school is about learning to look. Anyone can draw squiggles. But you have to be trained (sometimes methodically, sometimes painfully, sometimes by rote) to see, to look, to observe.
Before you can do something like: http://freekhand.blogspot.com/2010/12/barcelona-sketchcrawl-...