Meanwhile, I had graduated as an industrial designer. Like Finnish female artist Miina Äkkijyrkkä. I discovered artists who really can draw. It can be fast and effortless or slow and dull. With some practice, I was able to draw ordinary objects, like leaves. The amount of drawing that I had done had left marks in my memory. My goal was to draw whatever popped up into my mind. So I abandoned the models, mirrors, and other images. I assumed that most of the great artists had the ability to understand proportions and structures so that they could draw anything, without having a model or a photograph. Browsing art books every week at the local library of the small hometown, I saw many outstanding masterpieces. The deeper I dived into the art history, the more I thought about the difference between copying and drawing from the memory. ![]() Drawing without Modelsīut soon, I got doubts. At least I was able to produce realistic looking pictures. This was when I first assumed that I could draw. The result would not be bad at all, even if I made mistakes in the beginning. This is what I learned in my teenage years: I could use several lines for drawing, starting with thin and light lines and ending with strong dark lines. If I drew how my eyes trace the leaves, how would that look like? When I look at them I feel their presence and they evoke thoughts. So I thought that if I examined the objects like they were not leaves at all, I could draw them more realistically.īut the three leaves, which I brought home in a pocket, are beautiful, natural, living things. When they were given the three leaves, they drew three symbols of leaves. As a result, I realized that those who drew stick figures did not actually look at the object. I heard her sighing and saying that she could not draw either! It was barely a branch, almost just a stick. The tree that she drew looked nothing like one. But oh no, I did make a mess, and I had to watch my teacher show me how to draw a tree. ![]() My most humiliating moment connected to drawing was when I was about 8 years old, and we had to draw trees at school. Sometimes I have thought that I finally master the skill, only to realize it again: No, not yet.īut now, when most of this agony is over, I want to share my story and ask you: what does it mean when you say you can or can’t draw? People often say: “I can’t even draw a stick figure!” That probably means that they refuse even to try. Whatever skills I have learned over the years, there has always been this one yearn: to know how to draw. All my life I have wanted to learn how to draw.
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