draw something that impresses people

i was doodling and drawing faces and stuff and i accidently left the paper on the table and went home. the next day i went back and saw that i’d forgotten it, i took it home that evening and i saw on the back of the paper that people had randomly commented on my drawings, saying that they were great and they’d like to know who drew them. i won’t ever tell those who wrote that it was i. it’ll be my little secret! :)

Conveying what you truly think is beautiful. (Damn you Jim Carrey for being in my head every time I write that!)

Art is shared beauty.

Sometimes beauty is macabre, sometimes it is touching. Sometimes you have to sleep on it, sometimes it comes right away.

Your technical skill doesn’t impress people, I sure as hell have seen many technically amazing artists that have done things that just don’t move me in any way. If it isn’t there to convey feeling, it doesn’t do it’s job as art.

Hell, it doesn’t even need to be a drawing that you use to impress people.

So, take what you find beautiful, imagine some interesting angle on it, and put it down on paper however you feel is effective. It doesn’t have to be photo-realistic. Look at Rembrandt, his sketchbook was amazingly rough, but it conveyed an emotion, or an idea.

Other things to try are using photos as what you draw on, or maybe pages of a book.

Whatever you do, know that you intended the message.

Shane – http://www.aimlessvagabond.com