It's Saturday, it's two-thirty and today I'm look at ways that you can take your
experiences or everyday goings-on and turn them into a piece of art.
So that every day, there's something new you can draw.
I'm hoping things are a bit easier than last time, I's still trying to get the hand
of drawing and talking at the same time, I wasn't entirely happy with the spread turned
out last time.
Also, today's episode is probably gonna be a little bit shorter than last time.
So, I'd love to know how you guys prefer it.
These first two episodes will have been pre-recorded while I'm in Mexico, so when I get back I'll
be able to take on any feedback.
I'm still playing catch up in this sketchbook, filling in the gaps of missed daily drawings,
where I've had ideas but not had the time to execute them.
So this spread is based on a night out that I had back in April, I'm planning on drawing
a kind of panorama of the venue of the event and I thought this would be a good time to
talk about illustrating experiences.
This was a week in my quest for consistent drawing where I was starting to feel like
I needed a go-to, back-up prompt, so that I could always have an idea of what to draw.
And what easier prompt is there than, draw something that happened today.
Reason being; every day is different, even in the slightest of ways.
You'll always have something to draw, you can even use the repetitive aspects of your
day as a theme to draw from.
The artist Liz Steel, who has the most awe inspiring completed sketchbook collection,
years upon years of daily sketches and visual records of what she's done, I'll leave
a link to her website below, she's also on youtube, but among all her drawings and
paintings are tons of drawings of her coffee that day.
Sometimes in different teacups but always the same thing.
It's such a clever go-to idea, to make sure you never really have that stalling moment
of staring at a blank page and not knowing what to do with it.
So that's WHY drawing your daily experiences has got to be one of the easiest, simplest
art prompts you could give yourself.
The difficult part is the WHAT and the HOW.
What part of your day.
What if you didn't do anything.
And even if you did do something, how can you show it in a sketch.
How can you draw an activity or experience or feeling.
I'm gonna talk about the how first, in a sense of how to find inspiration in the every
day stuff.
I'll talk about the practical how of how to draw it out in a bit.
So the first thing would obviously be that you have to experience things, in order to
have experiences to draw from.
This particular day that I'm drawing from, really could have been any other day in my
life.
I'm very routine-oriented; you really cant get a more repetitive, monotonous day than
mine, and that's how I like it.
So I was doing my usual, packing orders, responding to emails and things, I did some tidying,
I had just got back from New York so I had a lot of washing to put away.
And had I not had plans for that evening, that could really have been my whole day.
I could've ended the day with some more adminny stuff, watched a bit of telly and
gone to bed.
So I think it's important to look at how to start recognising note-worthy moments in
the most monotonous of days.
I always have some kind of go-to questions for myself at the end of the day to see what
bits could potentially stand out.
What did I eat; even if you have the same meals every day, which I don't think many
people do, you could draw that again and again the way Liz Steele does her coffee.
Instant, consistent drawing idea.
Remember this is all about not giving yourself room to stall when it comes to drawing as
much as you can.
You don't want the excuse of I didn't know what to draw.
Other things; What was the weather like?
Did I listen to or watch anything today?
I'm addicted to buying things online, did I get any deliveries today?
What did I wear?
Now on this particular day, as I was going out, my day took a detour out of the routine
and I got changed, I got ready.
In your head, you should be getting into the habit of recognising little variations in
each day.
It's great for daily drawing obviously but it also really helps with general mindfulness
being aware of your day and not feeling like you're drifting from day to day.
So I got changed.
And even that little thing, that's an element I could draw from, top I've never worn.
Nothing is too mundane.
That's a really important point.
Learn to look at your life through the eyes of an artist.
So that's the 'how to always have an experience to draw from in your day, even if you don't
do anything'.
Once you've discovered the stand-out thing from the day, the next hardest part is how
you're going to draw it.
Because experiences are hard to translate onto paper.
So here are my suggestions.
First of all, it doesn't have to be literal.
Remember that all you're trying to do is give yourself something to draw.
Once you've got an idea, you can do anything with it.
You could try abstracting that idea, taking a word or theme from your day and drawing
from that.
If the highlight of this day for me was wearing this new top, I could draw the top or I could
draw the pattern from the top or I could fill a page with other floral patterns.
The first thing I did on this page, cos I was saving this page to record memories of
this night, the only thing I could think to do at the time was stamp it with the, you
know when you go to an event and they stamp your wrist so you can come in and out.
I had the stamp on me at the time, I stamped myself so I could get in for free (jk) and
I stamped my sketchbook.
And there's nothing wrong with that as a starting point.
Sticking things in.
If it helps you to break up the blankness of a page and you have something relevant
to stick in then go for it.
It's a step in the right direction to drawing your experience.
But in terms of actually DRAWING since that is the whole point, one idea would be to draw
like a snapshot of a scene.
Like if you're decided to draw the part of your day where you were waiting for your
bus you could literally draw you at the bus stop like a screenshot from a film or a panel
in a comic strip, you at the bus stop.
This night I went to, The Big Steez, it's part of a big collaborative movement, events
and things to showcase musicians and artists and poets and all sorts mainly in South East
London.
They've been putting on nights like this since 2011, I've been going to them since about
2011.
And I think sometimes, the more eventful or interesting or unique a day is, the harder
it might actually be to capture.
This was a night with so many different dimensions, amazing music, talent, collaboration, creativity…
… how to capture the atmosphere of that in a drawing, can be a challenge.
How to do it justice.
How to sum it up into one image.
What I'm doing, which is another suggestion of what to draw from your day, is I'm drawing,
kind of the scene, but mainly, the location, the setting.
In this case, I don't think just a snapshot would do it justice so my go-to daily drawing
is always the room I was in or the surroundings.
In terms of portraying the feelings, especially if it were an empty room you were drawing,
that's where you have freedom of creativity I guess to use colours, exaggerating certain
elements.
In this particular drawing I want to try and show the busy-ness of the night, the movement,
that's why I've got people in some interesting positions, just the general vibe and atmosphere
of a crowded pub.
And I'll probably get into that more with the colours I use later on.
I'm thinking quite dark, blues purples maybe a bit of warmth in there as well.
So to recap quickly;
Why you should draw from every day experiences one is that You'll always have something
to draw the next is that it teaches you to be more
mindful of everyday moments
and then for What to draw ask yourself what was different about today
and Focus on the repetitive things like meals
Then in terms of How to turn your idea into a drawing I would say
draw it like a snapshot of a scene or draw the surroundings.
So that's what we've talked about so far.
I normally wouldnt put os many little details into a drawing but in this case I think it
all adds to the feel of the busy-ness.
And then for some other ideas, you can focus in on particular aspects.
If you're more comfortable drawing people; draw someone that was there or someone that
you spoke to that day.
Or one specific detail; like today its raining, I could draw the way the drops run down a
window.
On one of my more recent uneventful days actually earlier this week, the stand out moment was
that there was a wasp in my bathroom and I ended up filling a page with studies of wasps.
Happy with that.
So, snapshot, surroundings, faces, food, details.
This is more a prompt in the sense that, you're giving yourself something to think about,
you're training yourself to generate ideas differently.
And to see the world differently.
I watch catfish almost every day.
I could do studies of literal catfish I could draw Nev and Max, I could draw my TV or the
remote, I could think more conceptually about the act of catfishing and see if I could come
up with a piece based on that.
So finally, for the practical side of how to record these things.
Well there are three ways I would say that you can approach it.
You can draw from imagination, you can draw from photos or reference, or you can draw
from life, so looking at what's right in front of you and daw from that.
And none of these ways, no one is better than the other.
I can't tell you how many comments I get from people who struggle to draw without reference
and feel bad about using references for their art, like that takes away the authenticity
or means they're less talented.
Every artist that you know of, hasn't spent their entire career drawing from their own
imagination.
You have to draw from reference in order to learn.
You need to give yourself a starting point to go from.
So do whatever you feel most comfortable with, don't let anyone tell you you're doing
it wrong.
Remember, your goal was to draw something today.
However you achieve that, you achieved it, and drawing as often as possible is gonna
catapult you to the level you wanna be at.
It's getting late guys it's like four o clock already, the time is just going so quickly.
I just finished having my lunch and I don't know if you heard the doorbell earlier.
If I edited that out.
But some family friends came round earlier on and they brought round their puppy for
me to meet and they brought round their other dog for me to hang out with.
But yeah spent a lot of time doing that and I've just been in and out of doing this drawing
for the last couple of hours.
And that's one of the reasons why when people ask me how long a typical page or drawing
takes I don't have like a straight answer for it becuase I'm always up and down and
out of breath from coming up the stairs.
Just yeah up and down and doing bits and bobs in between.
But yeah I'm gonna crack on.
Get this, get this going.
Get back on with it.
Did have a good time hanging out with those little doggies though.
See that could be my highlight of the day, little doggos.
That's why you just have to always be open to seeing the interesting side of even the
most silly little things.
So anyway I've lost my train of thought now.
I think I basically covered all the things I wanted to say in this video anyway.
That is my key to essentially always having something to draw.
There are different ways as well, there are different prompts you could use I'll cover
in later videos.
But yeah in terms of using the prompt of drawing your experiences, that is how I approach it,
those are the things I would draw, that's how I would do them and obviously that's what
I'm doing today.
So it would be cool to know if any of you do something similar, or if you would consider
it now that I've spoken about it.
And what kinds of things you might draw from your day or what particular thing you might
focus on.
You know, I don't know if this did turn out to be shorter than last time.
I hope you enjoyed it anyway.
Thanks so much for watching, I'll be back soon, back-back, with the next video and hopefully
a good tan, so I'll see you then, bye!
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