Frequently Asked Questions 5
5. The workshop tried to steer us away from our natural way of drawing (making an outline and then using shading) why?
Because the workshop aims to present a range of approaches
to drawing it explores aspects of drawing that might be less familiar
to you.
Drawing an edge until it joins up and then filling in is often accepted
as the only way to draw or as the best way to draw but in fact it is only
one of many ways. If you aren't aware of the range of possible choices
on offer how can you be expected to make the most effective decision at
any given time?
What you have described is a method that works adequately in some ways
but less well in others. It often produces results, which are consistent,
controlled and neat but are somehow lacking in imagination, spontaneity,
invention and life.
Different approaches to drawing are appropriate to different tasks, the
workshop aims to open up drawing's potential in the minds of those who
take part rather than train students to perfect any given way of drawing.
