DRAWING

Pablo Picasso - There are many Ways To Draw

Anyone can learn to draw realism expressively. (Expressively means conveying great thought and feeling.) Drawing realism isn't about being born with talent or having a gift. Drawing is like becoming a forensic scientist. You must do the following 6 simple things:

Learning to make expressive marks with your pencil, your blending stick and your eraser. Expressive marks will make your drawing look like you drew it and not someone else. It will be your own unique expressive style.
Developing observation skills and documenting what you see - Observation is seeing what something really looks like. We explore the difference between what an icon of an eye looks like what a real eye looks like.
You have to train yourself to look at the subject while your hand is drawing elsewhere. You do this by looking at the subject you are drawing more than you look at your drawing.
Creating volume by having a value scale from light to dark, with a range of mid-tones - this is called shading.
Look at both positive and negative space - Turning your drawing upside down is a good way to actually see shapes in an objective manner and measuring space with your fingers to see if they match up with the picture or subject you are drawing.
Practice and hard work - You only get better by drawing over and over as that is how new neural connections are made.

Phil's Website

Scribble Drawing

Learning to Make Expressive Marks

I was lucky enough to study under prominent Portland artist Phil Sylvestor who I will be forever grateful to. He teaches a radical way of drawing that I hope to pass on to my students. Learning to draw creates new neural connections in our brains and we start to see and create in a new way. Drawing is easier and more fun than you could ever imagine once you understand the basics of creating light, dark, and placement of form. It is all about observation and practice, practice, practice. We are all in a constant state of becoming and so you can never take too many drawing classes! If you ever move to Portland, I highly recommend you sign up for his classes! In the mean time, I will be teaching you his methods.

Why learn to draw with scribbling rather than with typical cross hatching when creating a value drawing? Because this method will give you more advanced, expressive, and free flowing marks that are unique to you. These marks will allow you to use dramatic light and dark creating a Chiaroscuro effect that will have depth.

Chiaroscuro

Quick HACK for a perfect SKIN texture! #drawing #oppenheimer

RETHINKING AN ERASER: We use the eraser not to correct mistakes, but instead to create light, dark, and texture.

PLEASE WATCH - DRAWING FROM SCRIBBLES

CHARCOL DRAWING

DRAWING A HAND LINK

Leonardo Da Vinci circa 1470 to 1500

Vitruvian Man

Brain Work

“When you draw an object, the mind becomes deeply, intensely attentive, and it’s that act of attention that allows you to really grasp something, to become fully conscious of it.” – Milton Glaser, Drawing Is Thinking
MEMORY: Drawing is the oldest language. Even our language is composed of letters drawn on paper to form ideas. Not only is drawing a form of literacy, it also helps your memory! A study from Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology found that participants that doodled were 29% more likely to remember mundane information.

IT MAKES YOU HAPPY: When you draw, you release Serotonin, Endorphins, Dopamine, and Norepinephrine. You don’t have to be a famous artist to draw and doodle. Drawing also has calming effects, so if you’re stressed out, you may try to pick up a pencil. Read more about how drawing relieves stress.

HAND-EYE COORDINATION: Even you can’t draw the perfect circle, you are improving your hand-eye coordination.

ALERTNESS: What’s better than a cup of coffee in the morning? DRAWING! The act of drawing wakes up your brain and makes you more alert. We think that’s pretty cool.

We do alot of work learning about the brain. I have studied neuroscience and learning for many years and taken many classes on it. So students have the opportunity to learn about how to learn, what motivates us, how to self soothe in times of stress and how to train ourselves to live with the intention of understanding others rather than reacting to others and how to better use our outer cortex where the complex learning and problem solving activities take place. Drawing is the perfect vehicle for doing that. The information just above here is taken from the following blog:nhttps://www.theartstudiony.com/blog/why-drawing-doodling-is-good-for-your-brain/#:~:text=IT%20MAKES%20YOU%20HAPPY%3A%20When,about%20how%20drawing%20relieves%20stress. The above drawing of a woman's head is by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Interesting Potential Lesson Plan

Pablo Picasso - There are many Ways To Draw

Picasso started out with realism and then used dramatic distortion in a number of ways. He would draw or paint a person from a number of angles and make it all one face. He was also the father of the Cubisim art movement.

Rare Historical Picasso Drawings and Paintings