![]() ![]() I had no confidence in my drawing skills, but I certainly knew how to draw shapes. Remember earlier the story I was telling you when I was asked in a meeting to express my ideas visually? Well, towards the end of that meeting all I was doing was drawing basic shapes like a circle, square, triangle, blob, etc. You will be blown away with uncontrolled enthusiasm once you figure out how simple and straightforward this process is. □ Yes, I know it might be hard to believe that it only takes 12 shapes. In fact, after working with these 12 fundamental shapes for several years, I am convinced that I can doodle absolutely anything using only these shapes. ![]() But instead of forming words, I rather use them to form pictures and tell stories through my visuals. These 12 shapes are used in a very similar way. ![]() Just like we use the letters of the alphabet to create words, and then use those words to form sentences, paragraphs and entire manuscripts. I wasn’t sure, but I definitely wanted to find out. Could developing my drawing skills help advance my career/business? I imagined at the time what opportunities I was potentially missing out on because I didn’t know how to express myself visually on paper. I had an inability to get my thoughts down on paper in a visual way, which left me feeling awkward and miserable and left my colleagues feeling perplexed and confused. The worst part of all was that it was an absolute mess and nobody fully understood what I was thinking. And so I pivoted and started using circles, squares, blobs and words to represent what I was thinking. I really didn’t like where this was going. But soon enough my rudimentary doodles turned to silly awkward and disjointed shapes. In fact, sadly, I didn’t feel as though I had a single creative bone in my body, let alone my fingers. I do, however, pre-warn my colleagues that I’m no artist. □īut I’m, of course, a risk-taker, and so I dive head first into my drawing. In fact, I think that sadly they might’ve even regressed. It seemed as though my drawing skills had not really progressed very far since kindergarten. But all I had in my arsenal of drawing skills were some not so fancy stick figures with absolutely no personality. Next week, I promise I’ll show you all my mouth study.One day in a business meeting someone asked me to draw an example of the idea I had in mind. ![]() I think the coolest part of this drawing is the shading where the fingers meet together and touch the palm. In fact, with my music playing in the background and half an hour just to myself, I actually really enjoyed it. This time, however (and I don’t know if it’s from using a live model or it I’m just getting better or both,) I didn’t find drawing a hand to be too bad. I’ve tried several times before, and they usually look either cartoonish, or just really out of proportion. Unlike landscape, plants, or animals, I tend to veer off when approached with the idea of drawing a hand. I usually avoid drawing hands whenever possible. Until this assignment, I had never drawn anything from look at it in the present (if that makes any sense.) I normally use reference photos, so this was a totally new territory for me. My art instructor specifically told us to draw looking directly at out hand, and I can not tell you how tired my hand was after give a thumbs-up for half an hour straight. And because looking at my mouth study makes me cringe, I’ll be showing you my hand drawing first! Hey everyone! So I told you last week in my Facial Study~ Part 2 post that I had drawn a hand giving a thumbs up. ![]()
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