The creative artists creative process.
Creative artists rule the world if we think about it but we are not doing that today because everybody should be able to at least understand the creative process and creative techniques we use if they they just keep on reading this simple explanation. Creative drawing is a pastime that many people enjoy all over the world and I am no different, it has been so many things to me throughout my life but one thing it has always consistently been is pleasure. The wonderful thing about drawing is you only need a pencil or pen, some paper, your eyes and your mined in order to draw great pictures, a pleasure so easily obtained it’s little wonder that many people enjoy it, the creative process is simple.
When I draw pictures I often get lost for hours fantasizing and dreaming to myself about all sorts of imaginary ideas, concepts, stories or worlds, people, creatures and places, magic and illusions. This is often the realm of things that don’t exist until you draw them and they are released from the imprisonment of your mined onto an unsuspecting world, it’s amazing when someone looks at your work and says wow.
Below is an image of Gearman he is an attempt at showing the workings of how an imagination creates illusions from everyday objects something I have done many times when drawing because you can often see things in other things.
Image showing the constructional stages of building an image from another different image.
Yes I know this is not a creative drawing as such but is it because it is not a photograph either except for the LX mountain bike gears the rest could be considered a digital drawing rather than a pencil drawing but in this format it more easily shows the process of seeing things as other things.
If you draw pictures, any pictures, out of you imagination, from a picture or from life and you look at what you are doing you will start to see other things, this is not likely to happen at first because you will need to build up a stock of past works that is often called a repertoire. This is why it is important to practice by doing drawings all the time but if you like drawing like many people do it will not be a problem and you will soon have a repertoire.
I want to tell you a little story it is a bit of a dark story but a true story all the same and also a good reason for understanding a little bit more about what I am trying to explain.
I had a bit of an obsession from when I was a small child I wanted to be able to draw the human likeness, to be able to draw portraits of real people that looked like them. A large part of my young life had been focused on trying to do this accurately so as others would uphold my observations and confirm that I had the ability to capture the human likeness through drawing. I eventually reached the pinnacle of my success in this by drawing and painting portraits for people, getting paid by them for this work. During this time of about 3 years doing portraits I sold over a hundred of these to their expressed wishes but drew many more in the process that I also sold how many I do not really know but in total a couple of hundred. I was at it all the time but it was causing me other problems I was so over exposed to faces that I began to start seeing them everywhere in everything I looked at. I seen faces in trees, bushes, the drawings I was doing, buildings, everything, it was fun at first but it soon became annoying for me because I felt it was restricting my imagination unless I was drawing faces.
I never wanted to be like that I wanted to be able to draw faces as well as cars, robots, landscapes, mountain bikescapes or what ever but not just faces and I had to stop.
I am glad I did, I don’t just see faces in everything I look at anymore but the only way to do this was to stop and go back to drawing anything but not faces, only when I need them for something else now.
My new obsession is to be able to draw everything and I am joking because I can do that anyway so that’s what I do, we are all creative artists developing a creative process in every thing we do because that’s what humans do when they focus their attentions on a task this dose not just apply to drawing.
