The more you draw, and the more you focus on the process of drawing, rather than on the end result, the more your work will become an expression of yourself. Removing the pressure of creating a ‘masterpiece’ gives you the freedom to play with new approaches to the business of mark making in response to what is seen. This final article in my series on the basics of drawing will explore how, having cast off your judgemental self, you can develop your drawing so that it becomes an expression of yourself, your beliefs, values and view of the world. In other words, it can describe how you see things.
What, you may ask, is meant by ‘the process’ of drawing? I believe that it’s more than just the action of doing it, the moving of the handdecision making around artistic choices that were explored in my earlier article. These choices include: what to draw, how to draw it, how long to take, what drawing tool to use, how to use it, whether to use line or tone or a mixture of both and whether to use colour or a mixed-media approach.
