“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Many people I’ve met, even ones who can clearly tell why they admire a specific work of art, have confessed openly that they can’t draw the simplest of things! They often glorify the creativity of the masters without realizing that there is some hidden potential within themselves too! Great artists are perhaps not born, they are shaped by their life experiences, by their passion and by their determination to perfect their art.
This writing is a way to organize some of my thoughts on how anyone can learn to draw, how anyone can be taught to draw and how anyone can master the art. While there is much to debate on inborn talents and prodigies we have seen in the world, most artists in the world are made, by their own efforts!
Practice is
Without hard labor and hours of practice, there are no masterpieces possible. Every masterpiece artwork probably has hundreds of hours of background practice and hundreds of hours of thinking or life-experiences backing it!
Creativity is the biggest measure contributing to the success of an
Learning and teaching can both be effective tools for sharing knowledge of art, as well as self-discovery.
End of the day, if you want to be a great (or good) artist, you need to put in your time, soul and body to work in sync on your goal. Sketch, Doodle, Wireframe, Paint, Scribble…do everything which can just give you enough number of hours with your tools and artist mindset
