Drawing Practice

notes from YouTube video by Jazza

3 types

1 Innate - working at a level comfortable to your abilities, over a period of time your skill improves. drawing everyday, practice, practice, practice. any work you do. doing more volume. improvement through consistency.

2 Inspired Practice - a passion to create. rapid bursts of learning thru observation and enthusiasm. burn bright. but can burn out fast. ex - new drawing book, inspiration, etc. keep something to take notes or drawings when you get inspired. surround yourself with things that inspire and make you want to create. cultivated by new experiences and information. learning a new tool, doing things, outside your normal daily life.

3 Developmental Practice - intentionally acquiring skills. choose to improve.

types of Developmental Practice

One Picture Repeat - draw a single image many times with an ever decreasing time limit.
find a picture and draw it with time limit, and lower time each time, like 20 times, then compare first few and last few. notice you become looser and more efficient and relaxed.

Life Drawing - produce 2D representations of 3D objects or people.
draw anything in front of you, landscape, person, fruit, etc. uses your brain learn to make 3D into 2D.
this takes practice because your brain doesn't do that naturally

Tutorial Marathon - spend time dedicated to learning from creative tuition resources. try to stick to one subject or theme.

Deconstruction - take a complicated detailed image and break it down visually into simple geometry
take a image of a painting or or photo or image on computer and breakdown into bare simplicity. shapes to replace complex forms, draw frames of room so simplified it looks like a box, and simplified objects, teaches your brain how to work in reverse. If you can deconstruct something, you can construct something

Construction - take a simple representation of complicated thing and fill in the blanks
find simple forms like wooden dolls or silhouettes, basic geometric representations of things and fill in the details.

Exercises based on your flaws - don't avoid the scary things, face them head on
work on things that you are not as good at, so you don't fear and avoid them

4 Come up with a project (Innate)
   Make sure it is something that inspires you (Inspired)
   Make sure it challenges you (Developmental) that you are learning a new skill or sets the bar higher




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