![]() ![]() In a previous blog, “ Living Life as an Authentic Adult,” I briefly described the reasons why so many people operate as children emotionally and refuse to grow up. Tip 4 Make a habit of redrawing your lines without erasing them.Defenses, Existential Issues, Featured Author: Dr. One thing that helps me do this when starting a drawing is to step away from whatever I’m drawing or zoom out in case of a photo reference so I can’t make out the small details and focus on the big picture instead. Working on my drawings systematically from larger to smaller shapes helps me find flow and rhythm in drawings that are necessary to draw loosely. Whenever I focus on smaller details early in the drawing instead of the bigger shapes, I stifle the drawing process because I have to catch up with the marks I have already committed. In the initial phase of sculpting a face, for example, the sculptor would be least concerned about the small details like the shape of the lips or the nostrils because these details will emerge and be built upon once the basic shapes of the head are placed in the correct proportions. One tip I picked up from another artist I met at an art meetup many years ago was approaching a drawing like a sculptor who carves out a sculpture from a big block of clay. Tried to draw simpler shapes in this torso study. Tip 2 Practice gesture drawing and warm-up sketches. Getting inspiration from artists with messy sketching styles, so I get more comfortable in trying out a less controlled style of drawing.Not sharing each drawing I make on social media so that every time I sit to draw, my mind is not constantly telling me that this drawing needs to be Instagram-worthy, and I can relax and make art for my own sake.Realizing that making bad drawings is a necessary part of growing as an artist, and if I stop making bad art, it will be at the expense of making better art in the long term.Looking back at my struggles with drawing freely, it’s safe to say that the most significant contributor to the problem has been the fear that I’ll mess up a drawing which was forcing me to draw cautiously all the time.Īnd while the fear of messing up a drawing still occasionally creeps up from time to time, I have been able to reduce it significantly by doing these three things: I think the minor imperfections in this sketch add to its charm. Although there’s still a lot of room for being more fluid, I have made some progress in drawing more freely this past year. Here’s a more loose study I drew recently. ![]() All lines are carefully placed, and I have conveniently erased any evidence of reworking the drawing to make it look ‘perfect.’ Looking back at this drawing, I feel like I was playing it safe and too afraid of drawing incorrectly. ![]() This is one of my earlier drawings that lacks energy. Tip 1 Overcome the fear of making bad art. So recently, I have been trying to understand how good artists can sketch so freely and effortlessly without worrying about making bad art, and in this post, I share the six small changes that I have made to my drawing routine that are helping me achieve this goal. And if you’re curious, listening to Beethoven while sketching didn’t seem to help either. I was too precious of my drawings to the point that it was stopping me from experimenting and getting better at drawing. Since returning to drawing last year, I struggled to draw more freely. ![]()
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