Drawing from Within : Unleashing Your Creative Potential
by Meglin, NickFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-06-05
Publisher(s): North Light Books
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Summary
In fourteen fun and freeing exercises, you will see how easy it is to make drawing a part of your daily activity. With sketchbook in hand, discover how to be more focused on the life around you, and how that life can feed your art. You'll learn how to: find great subjects, no matter where you are, take risks in every drawing, let your unconscious emerge and stop the inner critic, draw "attitude not the anatomy, gesture not the detail", develop your unique style.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 7 |
| By Way of Introduction | p. 11 |
| Materials Are Immaterial: The Media Isn't the Message | p. 15 |
| Different Strokes for Diffident Folks: The Goal is the Whole and Not Just Some of the Parts | p. 33 |
| A Word to the Whys: Brainy Days Can Get You Down | p. 49 |
| Being Aware of the Where: It Kinda Makes You Wander | p. 69 |
| Turning on the 100-WHAT Bulb: Subjects to Your Approval | p. 93 |
| Critical Condition: The Smell of Success Isn't Worth a Scent | p. 109 |
| Sketchbook Si, Camera No!: It's a Pad, Pad World Out There | p. 123 |
| Believing Isn't Seeing: Perception Can Be Deception | p. 137 |
| There's No Time Like the Pleasant: Clocks Need Two Hands, Artists Only Need One | p. 153 |
| For Better or Versus: The AND Justifies the Means | p. 167 |
| Imitation Ain't Inspiration: Visitation Rights and Wrongs | p. 179 |
| Learning Is a Churning Experience: There Are No Runs and No Hits Without Errors | p. 190 |
| A Drawing Exorcise: Comes the Evolution | p. 205 |
| A Flick of the Risk: Getting Careless? Wonderful! Have a Ball! | p. 219 |
| Afterword | p. 236 |
| Index | p. 238 |
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