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  balloon string : Dharmatongue

Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain

balloon string said Apr 25, 2006, 6:30 AM:
 

I could never really draw before I read this book.. I mean I was creative, but if there was something realistic, I couldn't draw it because I thought “draw the idea of this” and now I draw without the ideas, and the drawing is much more alive and truthful!

  jodi : community grassroots inspirer

Re: Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain

jodi said Apr 25, 2006, 1:14 PM:
 

Yeh, I have found that one really needs to LOOK. Not spend too much time thinking (heehee). Also, most of my work is naturalistic and I usually work directly from life. Working from life gives a work a sense of livelyness and movement. A tension. It gets a life of its own. love it.