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Art Instruction and Musings

How to get started drawing or creating art?

7/10/2017

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  1. Go to your kitchen cabinet and get a cup, or, any beverage container you like.
  2. Draw the cup using your non-dominant hand first. It's going to look funky, but that's okay, the purpose of this step is to loosen you up and get your artistic juices flowing.
  3. Next draw the cup with your dominant hand.
  4. Compare and appreciate the differences.  It's your first drawing, so don't be too hard on yourself. As you can see below, I'm not going to make any money with these sketches because they are just practice. I drew many cups before #spillgrace came about.
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Tips and tricks:
You can do the sketches in pencil, crayon, marker, pen, watercolors, patchwork quilt, cut up and glued magazine pages.... whatever is fun for you, do it that way.  Make a salt dough sculpture of your cup if you prefer. Take photographs of that cup, manipulate the image, super close up, super tiny.  Just make it your own cup.
If you're not happy with your results:
1.  Do a google image search "cup sketches" or "goblet sketches" and look at them.  Study them, what did they do that you would like to imitate?  
2.  Choose the most complicated looking cup you have, it may be easier to draw than a simple one. We are less likely to draw a symbol (something you would draw for a picture guessing game) when there is more detail to the cup. Our eye sees that more information is required to identify THIS particular cup.
3.  Turn your cup upside down and draw it that way, it may be easier.
4.  Stop erasing.  Just keep drawing.  Leave the wrong lines, make the good lines darker.  (Think of those animation sketches with all of those random lines)
5. If it's not going well and your frustration level is high, stop.  Do something else and try again later.
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