Hello fellow wild-hearted artists!
So we had a go at drawing those large shapes and forms of the Harris Hawk in flight yesterday. How did that make you feel? Do you think you can see those shapes a little clearer now, or at least have a place to start to analyse your own reference?
I want to choose one of them and have a go at getting more detail now. I will split this over two videos, similar to what I do in my own daily sketching practice, which is for just 15 minutes. Yep, 15 minutes. I can get deep and be present and completely detach from outcome, because I know before I even start that I am not going to finish it today!
Detaching from outcome or product is where the big growth happens. Even when you make art for someone else or to sell, your practice will only become truly sustainable and joyful if the process is what you value, more than anything else. If you can embody that that, then it is in the doing, that actual making of the art that you find meaningful connection and the reverence and joy that comes with doing something you are deeply passionate about.
And that means there is already all the cherries on top, but if you really like the outcome of your creative practice, there is just a little extra one :)
These two tutorials, today and tomorrow, are about 30 minutes each.
Do you have your sketchbook and a pencil?
Alright. Let’s go make art.
How did you go? What did you notice coming up for you while you were drawing?
The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful - tell me all about it, I am here for it all. I have felt and still feel it all! If you would love to share your initial sketch I would love to see it and celebrate you!
Come on over to the community and chat (or you are always welcome to just hit reply and land in my inbox).
And if you are enjoying this process, you will love Hedgerow.
Doors are now open, and the content drops on 3rd June (though hint, there is already some goodies in there).
Remember: It is not the supplies that make the magic, that dear one comes from you.
But because I have been asked, I am using:
A Stillman & Birn Zeta series softcover sketchbook 14cmx21.6cm or 5.5”x8.5”
A Faber-Castell Polychromos pencil in Prussian Blue