Post your drawings/sketches/doodles

@MeAgain your drawings are awesome.

Heres my old man's akubra along with my drawing

 

I found these "biro patchwork" (just made that term up) drawings that I did all in a day back in 2010. They surprise me! I feel like I was extra creative for a short burst and then it went, haha.

 

Sometimes i make them permanant@

 

Ok so this is where I post them. Thanks for finding this. I will delete my post in the other thread. Nice work Rue!

 

Here is something I did all in dots. It is on 11x17 inch art board. One dot at a time. I am patient! Lol

 

Thanks. I don’t usually show things I do on here. some say this is crazy to do. Even the pants are all dots. I can really get into it. I have a really nice set of refillable koh I noor pens. That was done with a .30 tip. I hear nothing around me when I get into it. . I guess it is my meditation.

 

That is so good, Beach!

 

I appreciate the compliment : )

But the concept of "naturally talented" is one I don't like, for two reasons.
First, it puts people who have reached adulthood without getting into art off. They think it is beyond them, something that only certain people can do.
Second, it undermines the hours of work that people who have gotten good have spent on it. It kind of makes it seem like they were somehow born to find it easier, when their first drawings probably looked as rubbish as anyone else's.

I have a friend who is an astonishing guitar player, and people always say that to him.. that he is "naturally talented". He says he didn't feel it came to him easily or naturally at all.. it's just that from age fourteen he spent hours and hours a day playing. If a thirty four year old had time to put that much practise in, no reason they couldn't reach the same stage : )

There ARE people who appear to be "gifted".. Obvious example like Mozart.. but I think they are quite rare.. and most of the time "naturally gifted" people are just people who have practised more than other people.

 

totally understand that. the longer i look at it, the more amazed I am!
I'm always impressed by people who can draw fabric folds.. haha.. in any medium. Dots just seem extra impressive.

 

Well I wouldn’t call these sketches masterpieces, just quick unfinished sketches. Lol. Tossing in an unfinished painting too, which I will call finished. Lol

 

I would love to see some of your work. Please share? I am trying to find the ship I did in oil pastels when I was 10. Lol

 

Haven’t found the ship yet, but I found one I did when I was 12.

 

And thank you @mysticblu21 And at @Driftrue for liking my stuff. I have always been rather shy about compliments.
As for born with and not, yes s9me teach themselves or are taught, others are naturals at it. this Is something my nephew sketched when he was 5. No one showed him. He just loves to draw and I would say he is a natural. How many 5 year olds know how to achieve depth in sketches?

and mystic blue, I would love to see some of your artwork too. Please?


you can see the cabin in the woods and the moon in the trees too. 5 years old. Most 5 year olds just scribble. He has control and and an understanding that was not taught and beyond his years in it, great hand eye coordination as well. He can look at things and draw it, as well as just from memory.

 

And @Driftrue i love the one of the feet in the flowers. Of them all that one is the one I like most. . I zoomed in and looked at each one individually. I really loved them all, but that one I likes most

 

I don't draw anymore....

 

Used to draw
Hard to admit that I used to draw
Portraiture in a human form
Doodle of a two-headed unicorn
It was soothing
Moving my arm in a fusion of man made tools
And a muse from beyond
Even if it went beautifully wrong
It was tangible truth for a youth who refused to belong

 

Used to paint
Hard to admit that I used to paint
Natural light on a human face
Stenciled fire on my roommate's bass
It was blooming addiction
A miss and a push and a pigment
Book like a tattooed pigskin, look
Pinhead kids intermittent
Drank Kool-Aid from a tube of acrylic