If You Can S E E, You Can Draw

Roger, I agree with you that if you can see then you can draw and have been meaning to do a drawing for the challenge, but I am busy. I haven't been spending so much time working on this site lately because I need sales and have been working hard elsewhere. Also, it has been fairly spring-like here and I am not in much of a mood to re-visit winter with the theme of 'frozen.' I will try to come up with something though.

Good for you for encouraging us to enter Roger! I'm going to enter, really I am! I hope to finish my sketch today :-)

Also, thanks for the drawing encouragement. I've been spending too much time with digital creations, plus my drawings that I transmogrify into digital art have a tendency to be very structured, tidy, perfectionist, and take forever to finish... definitely going to do more sketchy sketching from here on out - it's one of my New Years resolutions!

I stickied it

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Great thoughtful thread, dear Roger.
I do have sketches...but most recent are ballpoint or ink,no pencil work, on here, anyway.

I agree with the drawing part but seldom deal with any of the competitions on the site for a variety of reasons, mostly I have little interest in them.

Ronald

It's not a competition

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To all,

If you don't want to think of this as a competition, or even a challenge

Think of it as an EXERCISE

And everybody needs to exercise.

Roger, I am not so sure about that. It's like some people have no eye to ball coordination, just like me. I may SEE the ball, but I can't hit it. I really can't draw well. My drawings always come out crooked for some reason. Think Ill stick to photography and the digital paint brush.

Diana,

RE:...I may SEE the ball, but I can't hit it.


I contend that you are Not seeing the ball.

The better the batter, the better they can see the flight of the ball, right up to contact.

In fact, some are able to see in slow motion.

Plus they are able to see their own body in action as they hit the ball

Test....After unfollowing all threads....to unblock me...a glitch, a solution...

Even if you can't see, you can draw.

Roger, I love those Gruber Greenland uber dogs!

Hahahahahahaha......... I have a different excuse. I don't have a clue as to how to get a photo of a sketch on this page.

Tara,

I hope you don't mind

I'm posting your tantalizing image, that seems to span across the all the disciplines

As you say "This originally is a hand painted (by me) ceramic cat, photographed and digitally enhanced."



I did this, by copying the embedded code to the right of this piece, on it's image page.

And pasted that code, here.


To me, this fine,fine work, proves that if you can SEE, you can do anything and everything.


I would love to see the sketch you have in mind

Hi Roger....

Drawing. My first love.....SEEING the detail, FEELING my response, CREATING ...all of that..
in a very different way from painting,,,,,A more intimate way......n’est ce pas?

Please put all sketches for my challenge (that I'll call 'Exercise' for the next one), in my thread, stickied on the home page of discussions.

I'm going to make them of lesser duration in future.

All frozen images here please

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i find that not to be true. i can imagine anything. i can see it in my mind, move it around, break it, open it, change the color, angle etc... but i can't draw it. don't have the motor skills. its like the object isn't in the same room as the drawing skills. i can create the entire thing in my head, break it down as a step by step. but only draw crude sketches at best.

the drawing center isn't turned on. i can see myself making a sketch of something. but i can't do it for real. it's like running really fast in a dream, or making things move with your mind, in a dream, or any kind of dream stuff. it makes sense there. but in reality, nope.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Of course, before the digital age (revolution) I could draw. That's what I did all through college and into the workplace, until the early 90's when I started using a computer. Now, I feel like I barely know how to hold a pencil. I just don't draw anymore. I can barely sign my own name. I'm so digitized it's almost awkward.

So get involved with the exercises!! It will help develop that again

Mike and David,

RE:...."only draw crude sketches at best."


Well, that's a start

And we promise that we won't criticize if your horizon is crooked

I like crooked horizons

its not a start, that is what it is.

no more than i can sing in my head, but hear me out loud and you would think cats are in heat.

or dancing, you are aware of the one called - "The Elaine", something like that. practice doesn't make perfect for that, i've tried.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

One of my art professors used to say that if you could write your name then you could draw. But that was before schools stopped teaching cursive writing. :-)

they started it up again. they found out that kids need to make a signature, and that's where it is. so back to cursive again. at the very least they need to know how to read it.

but i can write my name, but it looks different almost every time.

----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Mike,

RE:..."no more than i can sing in my head,"

I contend that if you could actually HEAR what you are singing in your head, you would know how to let others hear those musical notes.


Mike, I Know that you CAN SEE...Your wonderful work proves it
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And, to me, SEEING, is 99.99% of drawing

So Mike, is that you outside my window the last few nights singing?


Thank you Roger for posting that picture for me. I've been thinking about painting that picture on burlap, I think the texture would be purrrfect for it.

i can hear the song perfect in my head. like a radio is playing. but i can't tell you what they are saying, or hum it. its like if i'm hearing it on the tv, i can't do anything about it.

its like i want to go into the room across the way, and i know its there, but there is a sheet of glass in between me and the other room. the picture side of me wants to go the drawing side, but it can't find a way. and the drawing side, can see through the glass but it just can't access it.

just like my hand wants to have nice penmanship, but then its just comes out like garbage.

in my head i'm a body building karate champ. in reality, not so much.

----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Mike,

RE:.. Penmanship

My signature lost a letter every decade, until it became a straight line

Then I broke my arm ( left..I'm a Sinistral).

Forced to use my right hand, I developed a much more legible signature.

Now, I'm back using my left hand, changed my hand position, and I'm writing it like Obama.

All, the letters "R SWEZEY" are beautifully clear

Go figure


Edit:

Come to think of it....Maybe you have, for all these years, been using the wrong hand....Just try the other hand and other side of the brain and SEE what happens

When I was a kid, I observed a young man who had no use of his limbs paint beautiful works of art with oil paint on canvas in the streets of Saint Augustine Florida. He held the paint brush with his mouth and he painted.
If one can see, one can draw and paint.

my left hand is far far worse, i can barely grip the pen. my left hand has certain functions, that's not one of them.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com