be able to draw what is in my head

still can’t do this. Currently, my drawing class has turned into a painting class and I’m not sure exactly what happened.

My teacher just started showing me stuff, I started asking about other stuff and before I knew it I was purchasing rice paper and learning how to make ink for Asian Calligraphy.

So for now, I’m not really working on this goal. I’m still doodling in my sketchbook and attending art class. It is just that the drawing part went by the wayside and I’m wondering if I should mention it to my teacher and refocus or if I should trust that there is method to her madness?

Maybe it is time to double my efforts. I have been maintaining a schedule that is pretty lax and I can afford to put more time into my art class. So maybe I’ll ask her for two assignments: one with the Asian art and one with drawing.

Here’s hoping I can handle the load! Cross your fingers!

I have had this Wacom tablet for a while but since I switched computers, I’ve not installed the painter program that came with it. I’m not sure why, I just haven’t.

So I installed it today. It looks like it’s gonna take some getting used to, but computer files are more forgiving than colored pencils and paints. (And those colored pencils that turn into paints! Have you seen these?! These things are awesome!)

Anyway, I’m hoping this helps with my fear of ‘screwing up’ a picture. If I don’t like what I just did, I can just use my saved file and start over!

Like when playing kick ball and the ball ends up in a tree! Do over!

Yeah, still can’t do this. However, I’m wondering if I am having a new problem. Seeing.

See, when I first started this goal, I was thinking of the MILLIONS of times I have had something specific in mind but when I tried to reproduce it, I couldn’t.

When doing this drawing class, I thought it was gonna be a bunch of techniques I could use to make what I wanted. Instead, it has been a lot of reproduction. She offers me a bunch of pics and I choose one and I recreate it. Not a big deal, I’m doing fairly well, but I seem to have lost my inner eye. My sketchbook is starting to have more and more drawings that are copies of others’ work.

Is this a temporary thing? Am I just getting in the habit because of how focused I am on my ‘school work’, that I’m not allowing myself to have just simple fun? (Is that a properly formed sentence?) Or am I having so much fun recreating that the original thoughts are on holiday?

If I look at things objectively, there just isn’t any situations right now that call for my mind’s eye to be engaged.

Isn’t it just like me? To worry about things and then work them all out through my writing about them? If only differential equations was like this!

Still can’t do this.

That is all.

This is how I draw most of my artwork. Being inspired by a song really helps, too. The trick is to sketch out very lightly what you think it should look like, very undetailed. Then you need to get another sheet. You then sketch out the whole thing exactly how you want it, So much fun~

I took a neuropsychology class and a neurobiology class, so I can kinda do this already. But I can only say I acheived this goal, literally.

I’d like to have it so that the creativeness part gets down on paper.

Drawing the four lobes and the arteries that feed the brain just doesn’t sound as impressive!

I was never an artist as in drawing portraits or scenery. But lately I found that collage has really helped me express my emotions…and i even like the outcome

Wish it happened more then it does tho.

i mean thoughts n stuff not my brain