An uneasy relationship

…with drawing, that is. I think it’s good that I’m doing this drawing practice, but there’s a queasy feeling to drawing subjects I don’t have an attachment to. I already struggle with the idea of how hard I should be working at this — whether it’s okay to go on instinct or if I should be dismantling everything and learning from first principles how to compose a scene, etc. Am I lazy, or am I being true to my style?

I don’t want to draw the same thing over and over again from different angles. That feels like a waste of time. I could be learning all kinds of academic principles, yet to a certain degree every new drawing requires starting from scratch — unless you’re using learned techniques to crank out the same tree-lake-mountain-sunset picture over and over again.

I dunno. I guess the whole exercise here is not to think or question, but just do the work.

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