E10: The Secrets of the Warm Up Sketch...
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- This is The Tenth Episode of the Visual Scholar Podcast - With Tim Mcburnie.
In this episode, I discuss the Warm up Sketch... or Warm up Drawing... Or Warm up Speed Painting... Or Sculpt... Whatever...
Doing something to get the creative juices flowing is critical. Making sure your hand eye coordination is synced up is just as important... but there are many things we can learn from the warm up sketch.
It can tell us a lot about how we view our skill level and artistic ability. It can shed light on what exactly is happening when we first put pen to paper...
I try to unpack this topic so you can hopefully find a way to incorporate warming up into your routine or ritual. But also so we can learn more about what artistic craft and skill actually means...
This Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey. We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.
The Visual Scholar Podcast is designed to help you demystify the world of Art, Productivity, and Creativity. So you can get better faster, and enjoy your Art Journey.
We discuss Drawing, Painting, Illustration and Entertainment Design. Along with Productivity and Career Advice.
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This Episode dropped a bit late this week, my apologies! I hope everyone's art is going well! Let me know about your experiences and thoughts on Warm Up Sketching! I'm keen to hear what you think of this one.
I love these podcasts, I listen to them while making dinner. Excellent advice. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and experience with us all!
I don’t know how to put into words just how much I appreciate these videos. Not every single one is relevant to my personal goals with art, but when they are, I feel like I’m getting not only art advice but life advice as well. I struggle to learn from typical art advice videos because I am easily overwhelmed but these videos help me develop a mentality that is built for learning and embracing obstacles. I still have a lot of struggles with creative work but you give me faith that, with time, I can do something cool with the art I make.
I'm glad these are helping out! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know! Thanks so much!
I really enjoy you perspective and insight. I think for me I often find I deas Branching from my warmups that later inspire actual projects.
Another great video Tim! You are so talented as a teacher and so down to Earth, your videos are always so relatable and inspiring! One of the best art channels on UA-cam, please keep them coming 👏
Thanks so much!
Your output is absolutely insane, but I am incredibly thankful for these awesome art talks
I currently fall into the camp of only warm up sketches. I'm currently working to establish a process to finish stuff and your content has been very helpful getting me the info I need.
Now it's just down to getting it started.
We send a comment now and again
Writing in an artistic manner is a great example. Goes towards 'always making a composition' and 'trying different orders of putting things together'. I compare the average manner of writing to a mediocre, disproportionate manner of drawing where you just expand the drawing from your starting point incrementally - you can make it look good if you are very practiced. But it's possible to really make a solid whole by going away from standard 'I write one letter after the other, left to right' to, for example, ' I put the first and last letters of every word in place and then put in the in between letters'. Plus there are a bunch of ways to scale up the challenge a bit (differentiate between words to better communicate the primary and peripheral elements) and still do it in a short time.
I can only draw in my free time, so I never have more than 4 hours in a session (usually much less). So how do I get around this warm-up problem? Will I even be able to get skilled enough this way?
I think you can still get good for sure.
The key is - to understand that you might be chasing something that has it's own set of challenges if you are only spending shorter periods of time. Or having long breaks between sessions. And to go easy on yourself. (This is my view at any rate)
Often the problems happen when frustration sets in early on, as it can take time to warm up. The frustration then makes it harder to get into the flow of drawing.
Some of the ideas I have outlined in previous episodes about setting up a ritual might be helpful here. Building a strong habit and sense of place were you go to 'create' can be a great way to shortcut a lot of the time it takes to transition from being in your non-artistic self... to your artistic self.
If you know you don't have all day to sit around and draw it can be a good focusing tool as well.
Again, for me it all comes down to not expecting anything amazing early on. It might happen... it might not. From my pov the more we understand the process of what is happening when we start to warm up the more we can appreciate that process and not fight it. Hopefully that makes sense!