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motivation
Drawing
Excerpts taken from: The 3 reasons why you can’t draw, (and what to do about it)
Go read it!
- Talking and drawing don’t mix. The main problems associated with drawing is when you talk you engage your logical, language dominated left side of the brain. When you are trying to learn to draw something realistically, you have to engage your right hand side of the brain, which is keener on images and spatial perception. It’s very hard to do both at the same time. [W need to be completely] involved in what we are doing – focused, concentrated. A sense of serenity – no worries about oneself. Flow is the mental state when you are fully immersed in an activity, a feeling of full involvement and energy. You can get to this stage of involvement whilst drawing… until you get interrupted.
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 - You have a harsh inner critic. Drawing is as much a mental game as an observational game. Often drawings start off really well and you observe things accurately, it’s only when you get to a perceived ‘tricky’ bit you start to question yourself. The truth is you have probably started to ‘make up’ the rest of the drawing and have stopped observing, relying on what you think it looks like.
≡ - When I’m drawing a bottle, I don’t draw the bottle. I draw the shapes around the bottle and then the bottle is drawn for me. To see something as an artist sees it, you have to look at the Abstract elements within it.
Ever wonder why Van Gogh drank a lot of absinthe? Alcohol calms you down, you’re not as self-critical.
Wisdom Wednesday #8
Design from the object out. Do not impose a role on an object.
 – paraphrased from Josh Clark
founder of Big Medium
[on the digital manipulation of everyday objects]
When I first got my Instagram account, I rarely posted to it. This was because I had a Blackberry until about a month ago. It was such a hassle to use Instagram! I had to post photos using an app on my computer. But I’ve brought my account back to life!
https://www.instagram.com/p/_APTJssHpm/Â Continue reading “Instagram”
Wisdom Wednesday #7 – Forgiveness
Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behaviour. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.
– Joan Borysenko
Fabelace Designs 