Drawing ideas or what can I draw, has got to be one of the most common questions ever spoken or should I say, that most of us have often said “I don’t know what to draw” because we want to do some drawing but have no drawing ideas or inspiration.

I do remember quite clearly saying to my parents or others when I was younger “I want to draw” and when I was older as well, “I don’t know what to draw, what can I draw?”

The problem is, that it is not the right question and won’t bring results. It is wasted because even if others tell you what to draw, you won’t do it. The conclusion to this is that the answer is inside you to find drawing ideas. I am sorry but you are the only one who can answer that question. I can’t answer the question for you but I can help you to resolve it because it’s not really a question, it’s a problem.

The simple problem to finding drawing ideas.

The real problem is simple to understand, if you don’t put anything into the basket, how can you get anything out of it?

What I mean is this.

If you don’t fill your head with drawing ideas, then where do you think, you are going to get your drawing ideas from?

If you think about the pictures you have drawn and the reasons why you did them, you will find that it wasn’t because you had the urge to draw a car, a face or whatever. It was a specific car, face or whatever that you wanted to draw, this is often described as inspiration, a desire to draw it.

The realization of drawing ideas.

This is very often because you liked whatever it is, especially when you are not very experienced, young, untrained or self taught because you have not disciplined yourself. You have not thought a great deal about why you are drawing these things, you just draw them because you’re enjoying it, you like it, without realizing.

Inspiration is about what goes on inside your head, the things you think about, the things you dream about, the dreams you think about. Inspiration and drawing ideas are about agitating or stimulating this process into action, to give you food for thought.

Here’s the best part, we all do this all the time naturally but most of it is not channeled because we are distracted by life and living it’s self. Unless we make time to nurture and develop this process, our drawing ideas get lost in information overload.

Stimulation is only half of the story, we need to transfer this information from our imaginations into the real world. Into something of substance and this is what you are drawing, your ideas, it is called self actualization.

Do you remember this statement “The real problem is simple to understand, if you don’t put anything into the basket, how can you get anything out of it? What I mean is this, if you don’t fill your head with drawing ideas then where do you think you are going to get your drawing ideas from?”

How to fill your head using the net for finding drawing ideas.

Nowadays it’s so easy to find something to draw, I just go online to Google images, I can get all the source material, I could ever want and you people today, don’t know how easy you have got it?

When I was a youngster learning to draw, I was lucky if I had 2 Marvel comics or a news paper to get some drawing ideas from, let alone the billions of images online. Sometimes this can also be a problem known as overkill, information overload or spoilt for choice but that is not the issue, we are concerned with at the moment.

I cannot really specifically tell you what to fill your head with but I can tell you, that if you fill your head with images, that you like, then they will give you ideas.

I can also tell you this is how I fill my head with drawing ideas and it works like a dream, in fact I think perhaps I should be selling this to you but I am not because it’s free anyway, just joking.

I go to a site called Stumble Upon and stumble for images of the stuff I like, this soon fills my head, feeds my brain, feeds my need or feeds my greed, it doesn’t matter because it just works like nothing else, I know.

Organized stumbling will bring results or I’ll eat my hat.

I never get to ask that question, what can I draw, anymore, it’s so easy?

For those of you who don’t know what StumbleUpon is, then I will tell you. Besides being a fantastic place to store links to your favorite sites, as a social book marking tool, it also gives you the option to click a button and view random web pages, that can be targeted to your specific interests.

So you can set it to view pictures and then click the button to look at random pictures of interest, it is another form of channel hoping, except you can pick broad topics, this really brings unexpected drawing ideas to mind, that feeds my need. I have to say it’s fantastic because it is to me at least, please remember, a Marvel Comic as good as they where and a news paper is not much in the way of inspiration.

Then when I have got my drawing ideas off inside my head, I go to Google Images, Getty Images or any of a hundred other places looking for source material to build my next drawing, pictorial illusion.

You people today, don’t know how easy you have it.

Knowing what to draw is no longer an issue, Join Stumbleupon and if you are wondering about, what’s in it for me, then don’t bother.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

The answer to the above question is, there is nothing in it for me, unless you want to do yourself a favor and stumble http://howtodraweasy.com/ that would help me, to help you, perhaps.

This is one interpretation of what you will be doing: besides just filling your head with visual information, as it will also be, popular, visual, cultural, information, of your time, a fabulous way of seeing what the world likes, at random.

Another interpretation of this method, can be described as being the basic subject matter, for the pop art movement, research into, popular visual culture, using the nowadays experiential learning rout.

My StumbleUpon, what to draw method, is as follows.

In settings, Manage Interests, I have the following selected because I am mostly interested in images. If you have too many topics selected then your time becomes diluted with reading and not looking.

• Arts
• Bizarre/Oddities
• Sculpting
• Computer Graphics
• Drawing
• Photography

I installed the tool bar into my browser and whenever I am at loose end, not knowing what to do, I can stumble images, related information, on StumbleUpon but to be honest, I am never stuck for something to draw.

I often use this method not to look for drawing ideas or images to draw but develop the ideas I already have because I have been drawing for about 40 years, I have developed my discipline many years ago. I use the stumble upon, image hopping process, to give me new drawing ideas for what I am working on. It throws up some very interesting, potential developments, for these ideas that I already have, as work in progress.

I also find it to be a good place to store Art/Drawing links to related web pages, as favorites for future reference, without clogging up my browser favorites and keeping everything related in one place.

Alternatively if you don’t want to join and use stumble upon then you can go to Google images or where ever your own preference might be, to view images you like. When viewing images you are actually stimulating your brain into thinking about these, generating inspiration for developing your own images.

Not knowing what to draw is often about not being inspired and the best way to inspire yourself, is to look at other peoples pictures, photographs or ideas which will help fill your head and feed your need.

Some images created through stumbling, can be seen below.

All the most well known and loved stories in our lives, are most often filled with elements that we can identify with and recognize. These are personal but also very similar, from person to person, so they are a shared reality. They are most often cultural preferences, with common threads, from one culture to the next and not so personal after all.

This means that stories contain elements that are common to most people, the same can be said of images, people recognize and attach meaning to images, the symbols within them and even the colors used become meaningful. This seems more so with time and maturity, as people age.

The further you move away from the norms, the more unrecognizable your drawing ideas become and sometimes more outrageous or distasteful, making them less likable to the masses in general.

I have already said this “the answer is inside you” you are able to create your own drawing ideas by stimulating, that thinking muscle they call the brain, with visual images.

You decide what to draw through your own inspiration.

 

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