The Drawing Club

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114 The Drawing Club

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ExEr C isE:

Review your best work before you start

drawing.

I always tell my students to try to learn from their mistakes.

When you are learning how to do anything, you will make

mistakes. It means you are trying. The challenge is to try to pay

enough attention so as not to make the same kinds of mistakes

over and over. If you can stay focused and motivated enough to

do this, you will progress very quickly.

Mike Greenholt offers up this suggestion: Before you draw,

spend a few minutes looking at and reviewing your best draw-

ings. This will help you get into the mindset you had when you

did your best work. Allow yourself to feel confident because

those drawings represent what you can do. Thinking about how

you did them will help you do even better ones. Mike likes to do

this as part of his warm-up.

This makes a lot of sense to me. When my students put

up their homework at the beginning of class for critique, we

basically do the same thing. I critique their best work, and after

giving the entire class a good dose of constructive criticism, I

have them do more drawings. Those drawings are often twice as

good as the homework they put up on the wall.

The Waitress, china marker on paper,

Mike Greenholt

The Gypsy Girl, colored pencil on

paper, Stephen Silver

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those drawings represent what you can do. Thinking about how

you did them will help you do even better ones. Mike likes to do

this as part of his warm-up.

This makes a lot of sense to me. When my students put

up their homework at the beginning of class for critique, we

basically do the same thing. I critique their best work, and after

giving the entire class a good dose of constructive criticism, I

have them do more drawings. Those drawings are often twice as

good as the homework they put up on the wall.

The Gypsy Girl, colored pencil on

paper, Stephen Silver

Chapter 8: Mileage

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