drawing as meditation

Hello bngenoh. It's a pleasure to talk to you. "I'"ve been reading your posts. ;) Well, drawing noses is easy, compared to drawing the emotional nuance of expression and inner life. The difference is simple: seeing rather than looking. It just takes practice.
Hope you start up again.
 
NewOrleans said:
Hello bngenoh. It's a pleasure to talk to you. "I'"ve been reading your posts. ;) Well, drawing noses is easy, compared to drawing the emotional nuance of expression and inner life. The difference is simple: seeing rather than looking. It just takes practice.
Hope you start up again.
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Its a pleasure as well NewOrleans, the part in bolded reminded me of what my high school art teacher told me "draw what you SEE, not what you think," the results were definitely astonishing, and i definitely agree that drawing especially realistic drawing is a meditation, because remembering my state when i used to draw, my mind would be completely empty, and occupied only with the form of the object, and letting a connection between my eyes and hand form and predominate, and stay in that state till i decided i was finished.

"I" have been thinking even before your post of getting back to it, guess 'I" will just have to make the time now, since your post has rekindled my love for drawing. Thanks BTW. :)
 
This is really beautiful. I am always a little jealous of people who know how to draw. :-[ I like your comments about drawing, very interesting. Thanks to share this nice little girl with us. She is really cute.

Loreta
 
Dear Loreta, don't be jealous! Even if you mean that lightly. Everyone has their individual talent. Drawing is artistic, but sometimes it feels more like being AUTISTIC. Unable to function in the real world. But when I draw, I can touch a deeper sense of being. It's easy for me. other things are difficult. You should see me struggle trying to balance my checkbook. I admire my accountant for what he does with numbers.



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Wow.... I dunno, what would you have me say?

I could gush about the cropping, her hands, her downcast eyes, the color, lighting angle... but I'll stick with "wow". :)
 
Very impressive NewOrleans, congratulations!

By the way, I get a bleak emotional quality from it, but it may just be my subjective perspective.

I tried the artist's path with drawing and music but it never took off. Because I know that it is not easy, I admire (and somewhat envy) good artists and musicians.

Again, nice work!
 
I don't know her name, Bngenoh. Most times i write it somewhere. There is a group here that meets and draws - and drinks- called Dr. Sketchy's Anti-art Class. It's a lot of fun. Usually they have very short poses but this drawing is both live pose plus photographic reference to develop the subtle tones later. Photos can capture all the details, but it still takes an eye to choose what to finesse. Yes, it took more than one drawing to get this right. I toss the bad ones, but that's all part of sketching. The lighting and tight cropping which sets the picture into a classic arrangement is what I was after. Not one done in five minutes... I can be fast but not that fast. :)
 
It looks like she's sat somewhere comfortable - at a table, resting on her arm reading a book perhaps on the table in front of her =)

She's captured so beautifully she could be real. Well she is, but I mean, it's as if you've captured something tangible that you can reach out and touch, something of what it is to be human - a part that can be appreciated and is beautiful. A part of unconscious naturalness. Almost entirely unposed, just a moment of someone just 'being'.
 
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