Drawings almost every day by Romney David Smith and Tarragon Smith. Occasionally paintings or etchings or silkscreens. Or whatever else catches our fancy.
Four facts to write on the inside cover of your sketchbook:
1. Never compare yourself to other artists. Don't compare your first drawing to their reproduction in a book. Let their progress inspire but not intimidate you. Compare you to you. That's all that counts.
2. You're making more progress that you think. You may not see it but it's happening with every page. Guaranteed.
3. Everyone struggles at the beginning. Check out early van Gogh drawings. Awful. Struggle is normal, inevitable, a positive sign that you are working things through. Your early drawings are zero indication of what you will achieve in time.
Freeing up. Being able to draw quickly is a useful skill, allowing artists to make drawings of fleeting or non-static subjects. The speed and unpolished feel of the marks can give a sketch a spontaneity that reflects the movement or impermanence of a moment. HB
Four facts to write on the inside cover of your sketchbook:
ReplyDelete1. Never compare yourself to other artists. Don't compare your first drawing to their reproduction in a book. Let their progress inspire but not intimidate you. Compare you to you. That's all that counts.
2. You're making more progress that you think. You may not see it but it's happening with every page. Guaranteed.
3. Everyone struggles at the beginning. Check out early van Gogh drawings. Awful. Struggle is normal, inevitable, a positive sign that you are working things through. Your early drawings are zero indication of what you will achieve in time.
4. Remember, you can draw. Just keep doing it.
Danny Gregory
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
ReplyDeleteJohn Baldessari
Be yourself.
ReplyDeleteJB
Freeing up.
ReplyDeleteBeing able to draw quickly is a useful skill, allowing artists to make drawings of fleeting or non-static subjects. The speed and unpolished feel of the marks can give a sketch a spontaneity that reflects the movement or impermanence of a moment.
HB