| DRAWING SKETCHING COURSE: INTRODUCTION |
INTRODUCTORY WORDS:
(if you have no time, just jump to §1!)
The only way to learn drawing or sketching is to draw and sketch!
Drawing has many aspects.
Drawing is seizing the world by intensive observation and it is an act
of abstraction, projecting a three dimensional world onto a two-dimensional
surface. Sketching can be just driving out boredom, sometimes its pure
desire, it can be self-manifestation, or a religious act, meditation
or simply the satisfaction of an impulse, which is own to humans and
which has already manifested in the rock drawings of Lascaux. The reasons
to draw are as various as the persons, who draw.
Good drawings just "work out", but it is hard to describe, why they
are “working out” and it is impossible to tell rules, which guarantee,
that a drawing will work out. The stress lies on "hard", because it
is in fact possible to analyse a single, concrete drawing or piece of
artwork. Drawings and sketchings are fast and spontaneous artistic mediums
and the material expenditure, which the draughtsman must drive, is very
small.
Today suitable “picture undergrounds” like papers are omnipresent, paper
doesn’t cost more than some pence, which was totally different in former
times. And pens and pencils are everywhere. You can draw with nearly
everything, which leaves traces on surfaces. With stones on bitumen,
with charcoal on walls and naturally with pens on paper. For beginners
the "classical" pencil is the ideal tool, it is available everywhere
in different degrees of hardness and it is cheap. But naturally you
can draw with other pens (I personally love black ball-point pens).
In order to make “good drawings”, you don’t have to be able to draw
in an “naturalistic manner” (what ever this is). On the other hand it
doesn’t harm you, if you can do so. And - drawing is learnable.
On this website I will give you some basic rules to apprehend motives.
And in this context a really serious meant warning:
Turning back to the beginning: The best way to learn drawing and sketching is drawing and sketching! Therefore just start and have fun!
