The wise owl project- lesson 1
I've been pretty depressed these days by people making bad use of my blog. Stalking, agressivity, spam, even pictures stolen, ideas too. Yuck.
The best way to avoid such situations is to teach. No really. If people are interested in my art to the point they want to steal it, I'm going to teach them how to make their own. Like that they will be so busy doing theirs they will forget about mine. And it's a good gift to give to people who don't steal and are interested anyway.
So I will begin a new set of lessons I hope you will enjoy, and if not, I will publish it with a few owls illustrations for eye candy any way, because, you know, it's the wise owl project.
Lesson number one : the basics
Master your tools!
This is of course the basic, but it's easy to say , not easy to do. First you may want to enquire around what tool is the most interesting for you. Is it a computer? Will you do your best learning to sew? What about sculpture, felting, drawing, watercolor...Ouch just thinking about it and I feel a bit dizzy. So many good things to learn! But maybe you already have an idea. Maybe there was some material you really like to play with as a child. Maybe there are a few artists you like whom techniques you would like to learn.
Buy books and read them.
Google the name of the techniques you like.
Find some tutorials on the web and read them...
Then don't stop here.
Practice.
When I want to learn a knew tool or technique, I practice it 20mn a day, minimum, every day. Of course it's not easy. It's always crappy at the beginning, then it's always better. You will be delighted by your new skills after a few weeks only. Don't show yet. Practice for yourself. If it's too difficult, inquire for lessons.
20 minutes doesn't sound a lot. Just think about it, it's ten hours a month, plenty of time to create something interesting. Sometimes you will be hooked and work more, of course. Sometimes you won't have time to do it.
But anyway. Practice do good. There's always results and good surprises.
Links for today:
DIY network, Crafster ® , Chronicle Books, Pomadour cute Japanese craft shop, There is more classic arts and you can easily inquire for them, but these links will give you more ideas!
Choose something you like. Do art for you first.
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Ces derniers temps ont été difficiles pour le Non Dairy : barre a babord, barre a tribord, tempete et grognements, entre les vols d'images et les coms agressifs voir puants, ça a valse. Bon c'est pas grave, temps calme, on reprend. Aux enquiquineurs je reponds simplement : puisque vous aimez le dessin et ne savez pas trop quoi faire, au point d'avoir le temps d'enquiquiner le monde, allons-y, je vais trouver de quoi vous occuper. Je vais vous montrer comment faire. Et puis ca fera du bien a tout le monde, même aux gentils qui méritent bien qu'on les aide aussi!
On va partir des basiques. Mais alors niveau zero du basique.
Leçon numéro un:
Etre maître de ses outils
Trouvez un art qui vous plaît. Ca peut etre n'importe quoi. Gravure sur bois, laine cardée, aquarelle...
Achetez des bouquins. Renseignez vous. Googuelisez le pour voir ce que font les artistes qui pratiquent cette technique. Trouvez des tutoriels, lisez les. Prenez des cours si c'est trop complique seul. Mais ne vous arrêtez pas la. Pas de procrastination, plongez!
L'art s'apprend par la pratique. C'est tout. Pas de surprises, pas d'erreur. Pratiquer votre nouvel art 20mn par jour. 20mn ce n'est pas enorme. Mais ca fait 10h par mois. On en fait des choses en 10h. Quoiqu'il arrive, perseverez. Il y aura des resultats. Forcement. Ca ne marche pas autrement. La premiere condition c'est la perseverance dans la pratique. Il n'y a pas de magie.
Des liens pour le plaisir:
DIY network, Crafster ® , Chronicle Books, Pomadour cute Japanese craft shop, Il y a des arts plus classiques. Ces liens sont la pour vous aider a trouver d'autres idees, parcequ'il n'y a pas que les Beaux Arts dans la vie.
Choisissez quelques chose qui vous plait. Pratiquez un art d'abord pour vous. Ne montrz pas ce que vous faites tant que vous n'etes pas content du resultat.
La leçon nº2 parlera d'inspiration, à vos crayons, à vous Cognac Jay.