Tomorrow: Overcoming fear of drawing…help them take the next step.
When we moved on to more drawing lessons, I was proud of how much the kids had loosened up by doing this exercise for me. This also produced some laughs, but really got them to see that nothing bad was going to happen if Kermit looked like he had six arms and no legs. And the rest of them grumbled and complained about how bad they were at drawing, but they were drawing none the less! When the class had finished, we gathered up everyone’s work and compared some of the results. Some of them laughed the whole time about the fact that they were drawing Kermit. Some of them did great, and drew with great concentration. Before they could even protest, I pressed start and shouted “Go!” I took out my timer, and set it to thirty seconds. After discussing the difference between gesture drawing and contour drawing, which we had already discussed, I assigned each student a starting place, and told them they were going to rotate around the stations until they had returned to their original positions. About twelve separate stations around the room, each one containing a sign to number the station, and a simple object to draw. After a refresher on the concepts of gesture and structure, you will learn a functional and constructive approach to human anatomy.
I knew I needed to take the focus off of the drawing itself, and convince them that I wasn’t going to pick their work apart. In the first week, instructor Steve Huston will teach you an approach to simplifying human anatomy for more effective artwork. So attempting to teach them about gesture drawing was a daunting task for me. They will trace other people’s pictures with no problem, but when I try to get them to draw from life they freak out. Even the ones who are good at it get very self-conscious and don’t want to try.
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