Drawing as a means of self-expression, self-improvement of personality Automatic translate

What is drawing? Different people will answer this question in different ways. Some people think that drawing is a skill and technique developed through years of long and hard work, some people will answer that it is an expression of the human soul on paper, its outpouring, emotions; some people say that a real drawing is obtained only by combining both. I agree with the last statement. In part. After all, sometimes a person, rich in spirit, interesting from within, even if extremely clumsily wielding a brush or pencil, a hundred times better draw something interesting than a master without a soul and with a boring grayness of honed straight lines. And just as interestingly will he paint something as someone who possesses skill and a rich inner world at the same time.

Character. This is what is most important in a drawing. The character of a drawing largely reflects the character of the artist. Bright colors, extraordinary combinations of colors, the thickness of lines, unusual, unexpected, independence!… - all this allows a person to express himself.

How often do we often notice a certain feeling of envy and at the same time irreversible attraction to a person, when we see an unusually interesting drawing, realizing that we ourselves can not do the same? And we ask this person: How do you do it? And the person answers, “I don’t know how I do it, I only know that if I want, I can do it. And you can do it. Everyone can do it.

Learning to draw? Yes, it’s crazy exciting. It is madly pleasant to see your first, at least somehow, with the help of others, for a huge amount of time, but still well built drawing. And it is no less pleasant to see the result of your long labor - the correct construction of the drawing, the play of light shading, colors, composition… But this is exactly what we call mastery. Your individuality and uniqueness will not be developed by anyone, neither on courses, nor in art schools. It remains only on your conscience. And no doubt, anyone can learn to draw, not only children are taught to draw, there are courses for teaching drawing to adults from scratch .

There are vivid personalities who pour colors onto paper as if from the depths of their souls! You can look at their work for hours, immersing yourself in an extraordinary world of aesthetics and beauty. But these people are not only rich from within, they are also persistent and independent. In what does this manifest itself? Yes, in the fact that drawing is a thing limited by certain limits. Of our minds. Not our consciousness. The more boundaries, the duller the drawing. Don’t be afraid. Try to listen less to teachers, instructors, and various other gurus. Few and rare people actually speak the essence all the time. Everyone has their own point of view and their own cockroaches. And carefully tries to impose it on you. If you are afraid and too diligent in obeying everything - nothing good will come out of it. If you go beyond what is generally accepted, do not shake before dipping your brush in the paint of this or that color, to apply it to this or that part of the drawing, then, overcoming mistakes, observing, experimenting, you will come to the most pleasant result.

I dare not claim that all drawing teachers are talking nonsense. Still, knowing something about the business and understanding it, I can say one thing for sure: what will please the hell out of one may not please another at all. One teacher will enthusiastically praise your work, the other will shake his head meaningfully and say that everything can still be corrected, perhaps. This is how teachers in art schools and universities argue, endlessly long, accompanying the process with shouting and even swearing, arguing again and again about what work is better and more interesting. Do they get adrenaline this way?

But there is one inviolable rule for everyone: a drawing that pours out energy, dynamics, life, beauty, individuality, even if it is poorly constructed, will always be in the most honorable first place. That’s the way it was, that’s the way it is, and that’s the way it will always be. So you decide whether you should pay more attention to technique and skill, or to something else inside you.

Expand your own consciousness. See the work of the best time-recognized artists. How extraordinary they are, how fabulous some of them are! Take Leonardo da Vinci, for example. There is no need to be afraid of taking a color a little brighter and more saturated than you see, combine it with the one that lies at the opposite pole… Draw a man with a huge head and a small body. Push your own philosophy into the paper, or make up your own unknown stuff, so that others can puzzle it out later… It’s interesting, crazy!…

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