Did you know that almost everyone when asked if they can draw say…no? Most folks grow up to believe they can’t draw. It is time to challenge that belief.
You can draw.
Start with a pencil and paper and do the Pencil Magic lessons. Share your drawings with others, it’ll help to get their encouragement and feedback. Yes you will also draw “bad” things, but don’t let that bother you. Keep going. Keep exploring, keep drawing.
Decide to give it a go and stick with it. Share your drawings in the Facebook group ProsperitArt.
Pencil Magic is a drawing practice largely based on Draw Good Now – by E.J. Gold.
We begin with simple exercises in which we create and experience the emergence of patterns and three-dimensional forms on a two-dimensional surface.
It is an art course for total beginners, especially those who think of themselves as non-artists.
The individual lessons are published my YouTube playlist PencilMagic
Excerpt from my upcoming book Pencil Magic, to be published in 2020.
We begin “doing art” with the simple tools of pencil and paper. And a pencil sharpener. That is all you need. All are welcome—let’s explore. No worries, you too can draw!
The basics are designed to open up your perception, to help you “see” differently. When using the pencil as described in the simple exercises, you can watch the magic appear right in front of you.
Pencil Magic is very non-demanding in the resources that are needed. Anyone can have a pencil and paper, and the exercises are very easy, yet you will find these basics applicable long after you are flying high with your art.
It is easy to get started. Indoors or outdoors, with sketchpad at a table or on your lap.
Yes, you can draw. It means, yes you can, you have permission to do it. No matter what anyone ever told you: Yes, you can draw. You really can, and you get to enjoy the healing benefits of relaxation, creativity, and taking your life back.
… What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow…. Kure Vonnegut
For the moment, you will only need a pencil, a sharpener, and paper. There is much magic to emerge with just those simple tools.
This opens the door to a possibility, an opportunity for participation: Let’s have some fun growing our souls :).
I hope you can make it—and continue to explore.
Let’s begin. Let’s do these exercises.
The rest is pencil mileage, or practice, practice, practice, or, as Tom Brown Jr. calls it for tracking practice: dirt time.