You ARE gentler and more compassionate and less critical, too, I am sure, as result of your work with colored pencils. And a beautiful Soul. I get it now. Thank you. I can see through your drawings and your exquisite words why you love working with colored pencils and how it IS courageous and willing to try new things, even looking at an animal in a VERY different way. I, myself, am a doodler only and I have only used graphite pencils. I, too, carry a notebook for writing poetry with me everywhere - in my bag and even in my hiking grab n go bag because talk about inspiration and yet, it is blank!!! Maybe I should switch to doodling :-) Thank you for sharing!! XO
Oh Danielle, thank you so much for these generous and kind words. I think doodling (and even doodling words!) will be a beautiful part of your next hiking adventure, and I hope you will share it too. So honoured to be walking this wild world with you xoN
I did it, Natalie! I sat on the edge of a lake this morning, at 7am as the sun came up, needing some quiet today, Imbolc, to bring yesterday to a close and bless today, and I doodled some words in my notebook. It isn't blank any more :-) I even took pictures. It was a beautiful morning. XO
Oh, the dance to value, value. I have paid attention but seems I best may approach it like one approachs a full dandelion head, not aggressively, gently. X
I've done the first three lessons in Drawn to the Wild and I love doing this with you! I can see that value is not coming naturally to me and I seem to have a hard time making strokes as dark as I'd like or leaving more light space. I can feel that I am gripping the pencil harder to press more but I don't quite get the distinctions with dark and light that I see you do. You can see, for example, how my rook is blended into a kind of monotone in places. Thank you. (Sorry, I'm unable to upload my photo. What is the trick to doing this in my comment?)
Karen this is such a great comment to read - thank you for sharing! Getting a deeper understanding of value, and getting those darker layers particularly, comes with practise. I know that is a boring answer, but I promise it is the truth! I might write a little more about this in the next chapter of Drawn to Wild - it is certainly one of the biggest learnings I had. I can actually think of an example I could work on to show actually, an old piece I can see needs much more value.
It is annoying, but for some reason you can't add photos in comments! You can in a chat though, so I will start a new thread to remind everyone to share if they would like, and if you pop your photo in there I can look at it and give you some hints :)
You ARE gentler and more compassionate and less critical, too, I am sure, as result of your work with colored pencils. And a beautiful Soul. I get it now. Thank you. I can see through your drawings and your exquisite words why you love working with colored pencils and how it IS courageous and willing to try new things, even looking at an animal in a VERY different way. I, myself, am a doodler only and I have only used graphite pencils. I, too, carry a notebook for writing poetry with me everywhere - in my bag and even in my hiking grab n go bag because talk about inspiration and yet, it is blank!!! Maybe I should switch to doodling :-) Thank you for sharing!! XO
Oh Danielle, thank you so much for these generous and kind words. I think doodling (and even doodling words!) will be a beautiful part of your next hiking adventure, and I hope you will share it too. So honoured to be walking this wild world with you xoN
I did it, Natalie! I sat on the edge of a lake this morning, at 7am as the sun came up, needing some quiet today, Imbolc, to bring yesterday to a close and bless today, and I doodled some words in my notebook. It isn't blank any more :-) I even took pictures. It was a beautiful morning. XO
Yayyyy Danielle! I am celebrating you, and the beauty you both experienced AND put into the world ❤️
Oh, the dance to value, value. I have paid attention but seems I best may approach it like one approachs a full dandelion head, not aggressively, gently. X
Oh yes indeed Merrill! Slow layers building up - indeed, a gentle _dance_ with a dandelion head! xo
I love your posts, and this one in particular, I read it over and over.
Oh I am so glad it resonated! Thank you for your kind words.
I've done the first three lessons in Drawn to the Wild and I love doing this with you! I can see that value is not coming naturally to me and I seem to have a hard time making strokes as dark as I'd like or leaving more light space. I can feel that I am gripping the pencil harder to press more but I don't quite get the distinctions with dark and light that I see you do. You can see, for example, how my rook is blended into a kind of monotone in places. Thank you. (Sorry, I'm unable to upload my photo. What is the trick to doing this in my comment?)
Karen this is such a great comment to read - thank you for sharing! Getting a deeper understanding of value, and getting those darker layers particularly, comes with practise. I know that is a boring answer, but I promise it is the truth! I might write a little more about this in the next chapter of Drawn to Wild - it is certainly one of the biggest learnings I had. I can actually think of an example I could work on to show actually, an old piece I can see needs much more value.
It is annoying, but for some reason you can't add photos in comments! You can in a chat though, so I will start a new thread to remind everyone to share if they would like, and if you pop your photo in there I can look at it and give you some hints :)