#119 - Start By Drawing Large Shapes, First, And Then Imagine the Form and Fill In The Details
What should you start with, shape or form? So why freehand draw? Why eyeball it? Several reasons:
#118 - More Heinrich Kley Illustrations From Vergil Eaneis For Artists To Study
You can learn a lot from studying these illustrations. This book is called Vergil Eaneis and they got hold of number 106 of 990 that were printed. it was published in 1910 so it is in the public domain, and it contains some wonderful illustrations by Heinrich Kley!
#117 - How Artists Can Resist Temptations That Are Unhealthy For Their Art Practice
It does require some effort. For a start, turn off youf phone! Large corporations create products and services for us that are unhealthy and addictive to maximize their profit.
#116 - Everything In Your Creative Pursuit Can Be Designed, From Your Work To The Way You Work
A fantastic way to look at every aspect of your life. Design everything about your life and optimize for the things you want to do.
#115 - Certain Parts About Making Art Burn You Out - How To Avoid Burning Out As An Artist
Do things you find fun and relaxing, and try to ignore what you don’t like about your work and how it is received by others. When you are burned out, it may be just one of the many things you do that is burning you out. You could practice fundamentals too much, for example. Just stop doing that thing that burns you out. Find another creative activity that brings you joy and pleasure and, just as important, leaves you satisfied with the result.
#114 - Make Your Drawing Habits Small Enough To Fit Into Your Life
So that you can always draw. Making your creative habits small enough to fit into your life is vital. If you stop creating, it is tough to come back and build a creative habit again. But if you make it small, you can keep going. You can carry a small notebook and pen or pencil to write or draw. Or you can even do these on your mobile phone. But keep going.
#113 - Often, You Can Learn Any Craft As Well As Most Others If You Just Seriously Try
You can learn anything. If you think you can’t draw hands, cars, or feet, that is just a story you tell yourself. You can learn to draw them. It just requires you focusing on it, practicing, trying, figuring out what is going wrong, really paying attention, trying to fix it, and doing that repeatedly in small iterations. That is how you improve skills, how you train your brain to become better at things.
#112 - What You Feel While Drawing - Stoicism, And A Way To Not Feel Bad About Your Art
Don’t feel bad about mistakes. Because I already know how you feel. You see all the mistakes, and you feel your drawing sucks.
#111 - What You Feel While Drawing - Notice How Background Sounds Influence Your Concentration
What background sounds are best while drawing?This article will discuss background sounds and how they can be beneficial or detrimental.
#110 - What You Feel While Drawing - Notice How You Respond To Surrounding Silence
The importance of focusing on what happens inside your mind as you draw. For your next drawing, work hard to shut down the voice in your head. No words.
#109 - The Five Stages Of Skill That Every Artist Goes Through
And what it means for artists. You enthusiastically lunge off in the wrong direction.
#108 - Make a Photo Of Your Art To See Your Art In A Different Way and Notice New Things About It That You Want To Fix
Improve a piece of art by critically examining if it is ready for public view. I’d go back into the drawing and fix things, take a new photo and post it.
#107 - STARING At Your Favorite Artist As A Way To Become A Better Artist
Become better by observing other artists in action. Eventually, I realized that made them much better at drawing! They could see the art on the others’ boards and be challenged to do as good or better.
#106 - Book Review - The Talent Code And What Artists Can Learn From Top Performers In Other Fields
What artists can learn from people who became good at sports and playing music. Reading the book was a life-changing experience for me.
#105 - The Effect A Deadlines Have On How You Experience The Creative Process While Making Art
Wouldn’t life without deadlines be bliss?Creating without deadlines, just tinkering is fun! But you often don’t end up with finished pieces. You might drop something to work on something else, for example. But it’s more fun.
#104 - Draw With A Thick Pencil First To Get The Big Shapes Down Before You Go Into Detail
Don’t fret the details. This helps me solve and fix problems early: get proportions and expressiveness right.
#103 - Making It Easy To Start Drawing Every Day Is A Good Way To Make A Drawing Habit Stick
Hemingway did this, and visual artists can, too. If you have some pending tasks that are easy to do when drawing, consider leaving them for tomorrow because this makes it easier for you to start drawing again tomorrow.
#102 - As A Drawing Exercise, Fix Mistakes Other Artists Made - But Keep It To Yourself!
But do keep it to yourself! We all make different mistakes. This is true for drawing, too. You can spot mistakes in someone else’s drawing, and the other can spot them in yours.
#101 - Draw The Same Thing Over And Over Again And You Become Better At Drawing That Thing
You can become better at something through repetition. Try this: select an image you love for reference, and draw it repeatedly, looking at what is wrong and fixing it in the next iteration until you get it right.
#100 - Things That Are Easy Or Hard To Draw -Trees And Female Faces
Things that are easy to draw versus hard to draw. The face of a woman, a child, hands, the expression of a mouth are relatively hard to draw because we know what they are supposed to look like because we see them so often.
#99 - This Common Wisdom Is Not True! It Is Not About Doing Something For Ten Thousand Hours
Even though it sounds reasonable, it is not. You often hear about the ten thousand hour rule: you have to do something for ten thousand hours to become good at it.
#98 - What Happens In Your Sketchbook When You Tell Yourself You Will Not Show The Sketchbook Pages To Other People
This is how you should look at them. I find sketchbook pages gorgeous. I love pouring over sketchbook pages by other artists.
#97 - Artists, Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone, but Not Too Much! Stay NEAR Your Comfort Zone
But do come out of your comfort zone if you do not want to become bored. Find your “happy place,” your comfort zone, first. Find out what you can draw well, and go from there.
#96 - Drawing Portraits Using Online Sources For Reference
Another idea for using online reference for artists. There are great resources online to look for; faces that are tremendous to practice drawing from.
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