I can’t draw for nuts. I can do a passable doodle and I can cartoon after a fashion, but the ability to look at something and then draw it accurately is beyond me.
Next year is my last year at Tafe, I have managed to stretch out a two year diploma course into four years. I have the confidence now and the skill level to set up a home studio. But what I don’t have is a working kiln and I wont have one here until the three phase power is connected sometime next year. So I might as well do another year at Tafe and this year as well as refining my throwing skills, I would like to learn to draw.
I have successfully avoided Glen’s drawing class for two years but now that next year will be my final year, it seems a bit silly not to take advantage of his skills. Even though the thought of spending hours drawing boxes on tables in order to train my eye is as appealing to me as playing chicken with a train. I really would like to be able to draw.
This train of thought in turn leads me back to my new camera. I was fiddling about with the settings and noticed that I could set the digital zoom to 48x.. Wow 48x digital zoom. The pictures looked really good in playback mode but when I viewed them on the computer they looked like pastel or charcoal drawings.
I was struck by the simple beauty of this image and when I get some ink for my printer I am going to print this out and try to copy it. I have some chalk pastels and charcoal here and I think that this would be a good practical exercise for me to do. Mainly so that when I do go into the drawing class I don’t look like a total goose..
Cheers Kim xx
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good luck.. 🙂
what a beautiful picture.. 🙂
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You’re going to be so happy with that new camera Kim! I had a lot of catching up to do here, wonderful skies again, and that little froggy is soooo cute!!
And I can understand how you worry about the Tasmanian wildlife and nature, it’s so breathtakingly beautiful, I think I would worry too if I lived there.
What drawing is concerned, I think I am like you, but you have much more courage. At least YOU take classes!
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I can’t draw. MPS went to art school. All three of my kids can draw anything perfectly. My Daddy is an art teacher.
I suck.
You will do awesomely babe! Have you thought of doing a course to become a Tafe teacher for ceramics?
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Beautiful colours!!! Good luck with the drawing -I can only draw kiddies ‘stuff’ to show grandchildren what fish, animals etc look like – actually I’m not doing too badly – but they’re, by far, not perfect!
Can I just point out something from a husband’s point of view?
You spend the price of a car on a new bloody camera and not a week later decide to take up drawing…
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If you draw as well as you do everything else… you’ll be GREAT!
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I dont know if this will help, but when I was younger to help practise I used to take an image and draw over the top of it, tracing each line and texture until it looked like a drawing. Then after that trace the outlines onto a new piece of paper and eventually try to draw it. It was easier to draw because I remembered where the lines were and how I copied the textures and colours.
But hey, at the Uni my drawing skill was frowned upon and abstract or collage was praised as ‘conceptual’.
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