I saw this quote on drawing at Austin Kleon’s site and love it:
Ken Robinson tells this story: “A little girl was in a drawing lesson. [The teacher] said, ‘What are you drawing?’ And the girl said, ‘I’m drawing a picture of God.’ And the teacher said, ‘But nobody knows what God looks like.’ And the girl said, ‘They will in a minute.’”
Sometimes I miss the sheer awesomeness of being a kid and having no filters, no limits, no preconceived ideas to slow you down or stop you.
I’ve fallen a bit behind on my drawing lessons in part because I wasn’t following drawabox.com’s 50% rule:
This brings us to an extremely important rule: at least half of the time you spend drawing must be devoted to drawing purely for its own sake. Not to learn, not to improve, not to develop your skills, not even to apply what you’ve already learned. There are no restrictions on medium, no specific techniques you must use, no subject matter you must focus on. Draw the things you’d draw if you were the most skilled artist in the world; draw the things your brain insists you’re not ready to tackle just yet.
This can only mean one thing: It is time, at last, for more Gum Gum People.
