As I fine tune the drawing lessons for the new weekend workshop, I am seeing that there are as many ways to learn to draw as there are teachers and students.
Some say learn to draw in 15 minutes and another 355 hours.
So what is the truth?
It depends:
- What are your goals?
- What style do you want to learn?
- What is your reason to want to draw?
- What experience or baggage do you bring to the class?
It helps to:
- Focus on expanding your idea of drawing
- Explore gesture and contour drawing
- Building a drawing habit that will feed your printmaking for life
So I would say it probably takes more than 15 minutes to draw and hopefully less than 355 hours to start to make drawings that you like. The thing to do is to find the tools that support you and your unique expression through drawing and printing.
The thing that takes so much time is:
- Switching to the right/spatial side of the brain
- Training yourself to LOOK at what you are drawing
- Start to see what you like about your drawing and be less critical
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