Folks
I love life drawing and recommend weekly sessions.
Cesar on this short video presents a view that the essence of painting is loose shapes and carefully mixed values.
When I free draw, using the side of my crayon or charcoal, I can get the sense of his approach.
A drawing that uses edges and values instead of lines seems to have a pulse.
https://youtu.be/FimUA3CivToDenis
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- Suzuki`s book Zen Mind Beginners mind is something I have treasured since I bought it over 30 years ago. I have found that approach to be so helpful in many aspects of life.
“In the beginner`s mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few.”-Shunryu Suzuki.
Thanks for posting @dencal
I Instead start painting lines of a general shape I see(to act as a guide), then paint masses of values. It completely changed the way I think about painting. Now I'm not afraid to lose my drawing, because there is simply no drawing left after the block in stage. Just masses of values. If you manage to block in accurately adding the details is actually a bit easier.
Even thought I'm new to this kind of approach in painting I can see that loose brushwork is easily achieved because you're less restricted with your brush moves (limit your self with borders as cesar mentioned).
Plus it's really fun and liberating painting this way!
Guys – I don’t disagree with the “no lines” approach, but I think there is more to it than that. For people just starting out in drawing and painting, to try no lines in addition to all the other aspects of art may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. This may be the one more thing which beginners do badly at, which leads them to give up.
Maybe after a few hundred hours of line drawing (which is the most obvious way to learn hand-eye coordination, and separate from hue, saturation, value, etc.), someone will then move on to no lines.
People of different experience and skill levels are on this forum. Beginners need to see some kind of improvement in order to be encouraged to continue. To teach yourself to draw and paint from youtube videos and no actual face-to-face feedback from an instructor is hard enough.
DMP stands for Draw, Mix, and Paint. Draw.