let's have a little talk about scribbling ~

a drawing lesson, free of charge:

in an attempt to accentuate the positive, i have been taking inventory of the things that i do well. first on that list is scribbling ~ !

here are the things i have learned about scribbling, which i must pass on to all of you:

you can scribble all day. it's aimless and reliant on no structure or preconception. it is born of the moment.

you can scribble elaborately. because scribbles are naturally layered, you can scribble over scribbles and the build-up actually accrues into cool stuff sometimes. plus, the natural impermanence of pencil allows for much alteration long after the fact.

sometimes the things i scribble actually look like what they are meant to represent. this is because scribbling approximates and suggests physical things. it's impressionistic rather than literal.

scribbling covers the stuff you don't know how to draw or are too lazy to figure out. whatever you might think you suck at, scribbling permits you to work around it. my perspective work in scribbling is much better than my serious attempts at the same.

you can do it anywhere and any time. all you need is a pencil and some white paper. no expensive materials or tools involved!

most importantly perhaps: i find i never critique my scribbling. scribbling carries no particular pressure or expectation because it's, well, just scribbling. it therefore lives happily like a free-range fatted cow on my creative farmlands.

all of this is leading somewhere.

really.

: D