Get Better Drawing without Trying
Want to Improve your Drawing Skills - with EASE? Want to get better at drawing no matter where you are and spend less than 60 seconds?
This tip is a BIGGIE!
Now it doesn't sound like a BIGGIE, but trust me, it is!
Draw a little every day.
"What", you say. "That's it! Too simple."
Then I hear you add..... "When am I going to fit THIS into my crazy, busy schedule?!
Draw without a Pencil
While you are standing in line at the supermarket, the post office, or waiting for your coffee order; trace subjects and/or people with your eyes.
Once you have traced a subject, close your eyes and "draw" the subject in your mind. When done, open your eyes and retrace your subject to see how much more detail you can remember. If you still have time, close your eyes and draw your subject again in your mind. (NOT recommended while sitting in traffic - unless you are a passenger!)
In a dull business meeting? Trace the speaker while they talk. (They'll believe that you are really intent on what they are saying and love you for it..... shhh... it'll be our little secret). Funny thing about doing this though, you may find that whenever you see them again - you'll remember what they were talking about. Give it a try!
Most of the time you will find that you spend 60 seconds or less each time you do a tracing.
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Improve Your Drawing Skills Dramatically
Even if you go for months and ONLY draw with your eyes – taking 10 minutes a day (you can rack that time up waiting on the phone, standing in line, sitting in a dentist's office…)…. Let me repeat this…. EVEN if you go for months and ONLY draw with your eyes YOUR DRAWINGS WILL IMPROVE DRAMATICALLY!
How do I know? I actually had gone for a few years (yeah, I said years *ouch*), without lifting a pencil (while corporating in the corporate world). I thought for sure my skills were wasting away. Then, one day, after I'd begun drawing with a pencil again, I looked back at older work and realized that I was better! ... and not just a little better, but WAY BETTER! Yeah!
How simple is that? Can you fit this into your schedule? Do it for a week (on purpose) and after awhile, you will do it automatically.
Training the Mind to See
Learning to draw is not just a matter of training the hand to draw. The hand cannot draw what the mind cannot see. (Make that a mantra).
Written by Guest Author: Tien Frogget
Edward
de Bono said it beautifully... "There is no doubt that creativity is
the most important human resource of all." And the truth is, you are
more creative than you realize.
How do I know this?
Because
you are a human being. Human beings are creators at heart. The only
thing that holds you back from harnessing your true creative power is
(you guessed it) - you. Just about everyone has felt disheartened at
some point by their own creative abilities. And it is this feeling of
not being good enough that holds us back.
"In order to perceive, you must first believe."
You
are never going to experience your own greatness if you aren't first
willing to believe that you are great! Remind yourself of this next time
you are doing something creative, and give yourself permission to be
great - even if it's just for ten minutes. Say to yourself, "for the
next ten minutes, I am a master at what I do."
Pretend.
Imagine. Dream about it in your mind, until you begin to believe. You
are an actor and you get to step into the skin of the genius expert who
takes the most beautiful photographs, or paints the most beautiful
paintings, or creates the most incredible designs in the world.
Creativity
is the very force that propels us forward in every single aspect of
life. It is creativity that gives us new possibilities, that innovates
and streamlines the way we do things. It is creativity that inspires new
technologies, that has transformed the human race from a life of pure
survival to a society that is increasingly more entertainment and
joy-based than ever before.
The
shortest path to discovering your greatness as a creative individual is
the one of FUN - and not caring how anything turns out. All great
creations come from a place of total acceptance and letting go of the
end result. Trying to be something, trying to be great, pushing
circumstances to come together to create an end result is the slow path
to good creations. Letting go and creating purely for the joy of
creating with rocket you forward into great creations.
Pure
creativity is not usually logical. It doesn't follow the rules that
anyone who has gone before us has laid down for us. It breaks them all,
against all odds, and reinvents the way we look at things. It comes from
a whole new way of thinking and being. That's why I'm such a huge
advocate of just playing - going out and taking photos for the fun of
it, or painting pictures just for the fun of it, and not worrying about
the classes and the rules. Not so much because you don't learn from
classes - (you do, in fact) - but the classroom mindset gets in the
way.
All
beginners are fresh and new, and ready to create. Then when you sit in
class you are told that it is difficult, and hard, and there are certain
things that work, and other things that don't... and the general
mindset is that you are in a class full of people who are also somewhat
talented and there's a pressure to stand out, to do better, and everyone
is constantly comparing your work to everyone else's and then the
beginner gets stuck in their head - the pressure to be better gets in
the way of actually getting better. Instead of just enjoying the
learning process they are trying to prove themselves, and then when they
can't create genius right away, they begin to doubt their abilities as
well as the possibilities.
Become
one of those people that constantly inspire us by stepping outside of
the box and doing new things, experimenting, and most of all -- being
willing to make endless mistakes. Create for the joy of it, not because
you are trying to be successful at it. Find love in the journey, and you
will amaze yourself.
You are a valuable resource of powerful creativity. And you are great.
Don't forget it.
In a dull business meeting? Trace the speaker while they talk. (They'll believe that you are really intent on what they are saying and love you for it..... shhh... it'll be our little secret). Funny thing about doing this though, you may find that whenever you see them again - you'll remember what they were talking about. Give it a try!
