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    Retiree
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        I have posted many times on wetcanvas that I don’t want to draw. I don’t have the patience. I can paint landscapes in acrylics without learning how to draw. Well, I have changed my mind. I am absolutely loving to learn how to draw on wetcanvas in The Classroom. Yet when I started in 2011 in The Classroom, I did not apply myself. I don’t know what changed inside of me, but I have re-joined The Classroom this year and I am in awe with what I am learning in drawing and what I can accomplish! Many thanks to the Instructors who teach for free in The Drawing Classroom. I have only had the wonderful Arnoud as my Instructor:clap: , and I think I am the luckiest drawing student to have his vast knowledge accessible to me.

        #636153
        maryinasia
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            Yay! I think drawing is a discipline that benefits my art …when I take the time…even though that time his usually during meetings….

            #636158

            Being able to draw makes all the difference. My paintings bear little, if any, resemblance to the reference. Even so, being able to put marks where I want them is critical.

            I’m glad you’ve changed your mind.

            A painting is never really done as long as I can get my hands on it.

            #636162
            fedetony
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                :) I’m so happy to hear this: Here is the “Encouraging Beginning Drawers” thread. You’ll see is 100% true what onestroke said ;)

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                "...when someone gives a critique of your work, fear not. It usually means they like or care more of your work than when they just pat your back." - Tiago

                #636150

                I am one of those that don’t like to draw. I’ve tried but just can’t seem to get it right, and then it takes so long to get a drawing done. I just want to get to the painting lol. Even when I’m using a grid I end up marking every quarter inch because I feel lost in a one inch square.

                C&C always welcome. Michelle

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                #636154

                I am one that never understood how one that likes painting can not like to draw. Sketching for me is the same as part of the painting.. and painting is the same as building a house over the foundation of the sketch.

                "no no! You are doing it all wrong, in the internet we are supposed to be stubborn, inflexible and arrogant. One cannot simply be suddenly reasonable and reflexive in the internet, that breaks years of internet tradition as a medium of anger, arrogance, bigotry and self entitlement. Damm these internet newcomers being nice to to others!!!"

                "If brute force does not solve your problem, then you are not using enough!"

                #636147

                I am one that never understood how one that likes painting can not like to draw. Sketching for me is the same as part of the painting.. and painting is the same as building a house over the foundation of the sketch.

                I agree!
                Onestroke, I’m so glad you’re finding joy in drawing! For md, drawing always came first and still does.
                Michelle, you are so good at looking and seeing (observation) that I’m surprised you don’t draw …. try it from life and apply the same looking/seeing you use on a ref!

                Cheers, Maureen


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                #636159

                Michelle, from what I’ve seen of your work, the fine details, placement and proportion are all pleasing to the eye and thus correct. In that sense, I think you draw with a brush and very well at that.

                Tiago, I think some find line work intimidating and do just fine without it. My first art book by Walter Foster started the first painting, a still life, by sketching the elements with burnt siena thinned with turps. It was not an especially small brush, so at that point the exact location of the edge was indefinite.

                A painting is never really done as long as I can get my hands on it.

                #636148
                brusher
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                    Onestrokeartist:
                    It’s great that you are exploring the world of drawing! I have often found that if something is really off in a painting, and can’t figure out what it is, the answer lies in drawing that thing, and the problem, and its solution will reveal itself. Then I can go back and fix the painting, and it’s much improved.
                    Cathy

                    #636155

                    [B]Tiago,[/B] I think some find line work intimidating and do just fine without it. My first art book by Walter Foster started the first painting, a still life, by sketching the elements with burnt siena thinned with turps. It was not an especially small brush, so at that point the exact location of the edge was indefinite.

                    But that is still a form of drawing. It is not the brush vs pencil that defined conceptually that step. You are still focusing on capturing the shape and gesture with simplified marks… the minimalism.. the minimalism is the “magic” of drawing. It enables you to see things you would not see otherwise.. it conceptualizes what would be blobs of patterns only otherwise. It helps you understand.. what in hell am I painting after all…

                    "no no! You are doing it all wrong, in the internet we are supposed to be stubborn, inflexible and arrogant. One cannot simply be suddenly reasonable and reflexive in the internet, that breaks years of internet tradition as a medium of anger, arrogance, bigotry and self entitlement. Damm these internet newcomers being nice to to others!!!"

                    "If brute force does not solve your problem, then you are not using enough!"

                    #636149
                    talisman
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                        I am trying to apply myself to do more drawing.

                        I do think it does help in the paintings also, they both train your eyes and hands and the more practice the better for both.
                        I’m glad you are enjoying drawing more now.


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                        #636157
                        DMSS
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                            I have been working on my drawing for a little over a year and it has made a difference in my representational painting. Also, it has been fun.

                            --David

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                            But that is still a form of drawing. It is not the brush vs pencil that defined conceptually that step. You are still focusing on capturing the shape and gesture with simplified marks… the minimalism.. the minimalism is the “magic” of drawing. It enables you to see things you would not see otherwise.. it conceptualizes what would be blobs of patterns only otherwise. It helps you understand.. what in hell am I painting after all…

                            Agree completely.

                            A painting is never really done as long as I can get my hands on it.

                            #636152
                            Dcam
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                                That’s Great Christina:
                                Drawing is all about repetition and practice. Hours and hours of drawing in my College art classes really honed my skills. One of my professors noticed I had trouble with “Hands”. He gave me an assignment to draw 10 hands a day in various positions for two weeks. Wow…..I became pretty darn good after that.

                                #636161
                                scmelik
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                                    I’m so one that does not enjoy drawing. I want to, I want to be a decent drawer but after a few minutes of having a pencil in my hand I’m bored out of my mind

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