Does anyone find drawing quite therapeutic? I love it - it's wonderful!! : ) For me, I love how it shows the relationship of the hand with the mind, and how what you draw can say something about you.
The question to this end is if you like drawing, what things do you like to draw and what do you think it says about you? I love pencil sketching and still life, so it has to be attention to detail. For me detail and intricacy are very crucial : )
Goodnight to you all!!
2006-09-26 09:25:10 · 22 answers · asked by Yinhung 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
Hahaha!! Dodds........straight to the point of what you are feeling!! I love it. I can so see it x
2006-10-02 07:25:26 · update #1
I just wanted to say that these are ALL wonderful answers - so thank you to you all for showing great interest. I've enjoyed reading your answers. Best wishes to you all!! : )
2006-10-02 07:46:34 · update #2
Awwwwwwww, zeggy.....that is beautiful - thank you for sharing that with us!! That is very sweet, I'm sure you are a proud mother. Enjoy the rest of your week ad best wishes to you!! : )
2006-10-02 07:53:18 · update #3
Crazzychk.......I so agree!! : ) Charcoal is one of my favourite mediums too. It gives you the chance to feel out an object, and to be at one with it.
2006-10-02 08:08:43 · update #4
I adore drawing!! Being able to express freely what you want for as long as you want... what a bliss! I've loved drawing ever since I can remember and I love it more and more as time goes by. It's an undying love.... : )
As for what I draw, usually people are focused. Women. More males now, though. I'm learning to draw them much better. And always in detail such as you. Been forever very detail-oriented... additionally, I always draw them, the people, in different poses and in all kinds of ways! Large, thin, Asian, Caribbean, long nose, big eyes, big hair up, down, etc. It's delightful also to draw them with great care; for even an hour or two... some have takken me days! I love shading, drawing countless lines for hair, intricately doing the eyes-- the pupil, eyelashes, lid crease, etc. It's all important. All shapes, sizes, everything. Though usually not small children... never could draw the little guys. ; )
Anyway, I also draw fashion a lot. My own ideas which I would love the world to be influenced by instead of the usual skimpy trash people seem to... appreciate.... no more rapper, punk, goth stuff. Onto elegance, freshness and light! So many people are in this dark cycle of nothing seemingly bright in their lives. How sad it is! I'd love to bring light to people.
Well, that's quite a bit already; better stop! So, very nice question, hope you liked my answer to it and enjoy your continuation in art as I am in mine!!
P.S. Goodnight to you as well! : )
2006-09-26 11:24:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Art in general can be VERY theraputic. I used to draw constantly but once my daughter started to get into things I don't do it as much as I used to.
As far as what I'd do it would depend on my mood at the time. Usually I'm pretty grumpy (from my job) so most things are pretty dark and gory. That's not to say I don't have fun with it. I'm also a big fan of Hot Rod art and do alot of stuff like that too. There's also cartoon stuff and just mental ramblings that get thrown down so I don't forget them later. My ex-mother in law used to dig looking at my sketch book because there were always notes on every sketch. Some were to dictate changes while others I was just beating myself up for making something look crappy
How detailed something gets is depending on what I might eventually use it for. If it's a sketch to be worked into a final form of some kind nothing is left to chance everything gets worked out. Kinda like a super detailed rough draft. If it's just an idea I need to get down then it's more cartoony and simple. But yeah, in the end I'm a detail junkie.
What my stuff says about me people never get it right. I've been called everything under the sun because of the stuff I do and it amuses me greatly. In fact October of 2000 was the last show I did. I had a piece taken down because it disturbed people.
Basically it was a female from about the hips up that was kinda: well, how to put this. Ok, part Cenobite and part cut up chick. You know intestines and the like. Well I got acussed of hating women and everything else. Is it true? No, I love women. In fact that's why I use them more than anything else as subjects. To me there is nothing better on earth than the curves of a woman. (A real woman, not the super model/ Pam Anderson types!) To me taking the most beatiful things I can think of and combinding them with the most horrid is a challenge, hence why I do what I do. Plus hey let's face it it's good to see peoples reactions when faced with this type of stuff. Does what I do tell who I am? Not really, I'm a big horror fan that's about all it tells.
The stuff we do (In art) if anything is a superficial glimpse into who we are. Things we do might reflect a moment in time or how we see something, or how we feel at that moment, but never the whole picture of what we're about. We as creators usually see things differently than the rest of the world and from time to time it will get us labled. No biggy, we'll just keep going on as always and let others try and figure it out.
Sorry if this seems a bit long but it's not a simple question to answer. (For me anyway.)
2006-09-26 12:58:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love drawing, I used to do a lot more of it, and I want to get back into it again ... I used very soft pencils, charcoal, fine felt tip pens, biros (you can great lines with biros), oil pastels ... recently I got myself an ink pen and nib and I'm going to have some fun with that. Also, I saw an exhibition near where I live of an Irish artist (Louis Le Brocquy) who used pen and ink with watercolour and candlewax, which looks like fun. He also did these great black ink and brush drawings to illustrate a book called Tain Bo Cuailinge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley, it's an ancient Irish epic).
I think the attention to detail big is wonderful because it's so absorbing, but sometimes the space that's not drawn on is just as expressive ... less can be more.
2006-09-27 00:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by Orla C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love to draw but I enjoy painting much more I love slapping on colour onto canvas and seeing a picture evolve sometimes pretty good some times rubbish (but you can cover up bad ones and reuse the canvas. I am getting better even if I say so myself but art is in the eye of the beholder
2006-09-26 09:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by AndyPandy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
very therapeutic my love is watercolour but i draw first and then paint and often the drawing takes a lot more time than the painting if i need to wind down its my escape from problems and stresscause i can lose my self in it i allways paint water sea, rivers lakes, and boats don`t ask me why i have tried other subjects but theres not the same satisfaction in drawing them but saying that i draw and paint quite a bit of fruit aswell cherries and apples are my favourate but thats because i know i`m good at them i must do them for a bit of an ego boost
2006-09-26 13:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by keny 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I really enjoy it. I like to draw almost anything. I took a class on-line at a community college. It was great. One thing we did was to draw a picture in the book, but you had to turn the picture upside down to draw it. It taught you how to look at the lines of the objects in the drawing instead of the drawing as a whole. It was great. Actually individuals who think they can't draw, find they are really can by drawing in this fashion.
2006-09-26 12:36:25 · answer #6 · answered by mercedes 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I cannot draw at all, but my five year old daughter draws at every opportunity. She draws lovely pictures of all the things that make her happy. Family, friends, school, places she's been and things she likes to play with. She will spend ages in her room and then brings them to show me and I think although they are the drawings of a child, she reflects through her pictures how happy she is with her life and surroundings. I have kept every drawing she has done as they are all beautiful.
2006-09-26 09:33:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Drawing is something you merely do. that's no longer what you're born with. that's in worry-free words an excellent variety of prepare. You do something that you opt to. you have to be able to challenge imagery on your head and once you plot the line be careful positioned the line the position curiously maximum proper. in case your having worry with a particular line prepare the stroke on a diverse piece of paper earlier you position it on paper or draw the line tremendous slow and reshape it . you could initiate with pencil and get a conventional theory of how you need your piece. then you could ink it to furnish upward thrust on your advent. then you could erase the pencil marks. quite be at liberty along with your form and do not imitate others creations. paintings is paintings.. Your expertise would seem diverse than what you try to entice. Perfection is interior the interest of the author, be imaginative.
2016-10-16 02:26:57 · answer #8 · answered by rhona 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, Drawing takes me to a whole other place. I love to do still life and charcoal. I love how I can smear the grains of charcoal all over the paper, and by simply releasing pressure, adding pressure and using my eraser I can make a beautiful picture full of shadows and depth without ever having to draw defined lines.
My favorite drawing excessive is to focus on one object and its shape. and without looking at my paper I like to start to draw that image and focus on texture. It's amazing what your hand and mind can be capable of.
2006-09-26 09:30:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love still life drawing. I adore ripping open a piece of fruit or veg and spending hours really drawing and shading the detail. And by the way, how cuuuuute is Pocoyo?? Lol
2006-09-26 09:31:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋