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Ooh- I’ll keep my ear to the ground for you. But I would love, love to see a little video about the drawing thing. Especially now that I’ve got this IdeaPaint up on the wall.
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Ah, maybe Santa will bring me a flip video camera and I’ll be in business! I want to see a picture of that IdeaPaint office of yours!
Wow, Julie, I am surprised to hear this! I find your work fascinating and amazing, and thought one of the most amazing things was how this all flows at the speed of talk.
I don’t have any recommendations for teachers, but it occurred to me that if you had more reference images to draw from it might be easier. Have you ever seen those kids picture books, where they have close-ups of people’s faces to illustrate different emotions? Something like that may be helpful at least until you find a course or teacher.
A quick amazon search found these books:
- Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond (photos)
- The Social Skills Picture Book Teaching play, emotion, and communication to children with autism (photos)
- The Feelings Book (drawings)
- Feelings to Share from A to Z (drawings)
- Fisher-Price: Peekaboo, Baby!: Faces & Feelings (photos)
Can’t wait to hear how you transform this!
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Thanks Shannon, I’ll look into those books. I do already have a handful of cartoon books, especially the Ed Emberley ones that have tons of faces in them. They helped a bit.
You’re right about the reference material too. I have a binder that has all kinds of images I have been building into my repertoire.
But I think at heart, the issue really has to do with transforming the way I learned how to draw into how I want to draw now, if that makes sense. I need to spend some time thinking about that concept.
Can you REALLY teach someone to draw in 10 minutes? This isn’t like “lose 30 lbs in a week” by eating bread and water and runnning a marathon everyday, is it? Really, really learn to draw in 1 ten minute lesson? That would be great.
You may want to find a caricature artist like they have at most theme parks. They draw pretty comical pictures and don’t have time to go back and fix anything. Just a thought. :^)
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Thanks Nick! Yes, I can and no it’s not a gimmick because it’s all about SEEING and once you learn how to SEE you can learn how to draw. The hand will catch up to the eye.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Julie, I will be looking our for that video….I’m a perfect description of the can’t draw person…Would love to develop my “seeing” skills…Let me know about that video..
Amba, will do…seems like there’s a growing demand for seeing, so I’ll SEE what I can do.
Um…Julie?
*waves hand*
Sometimes the things we seek are right in front of us. I draw cartoons. I teach. Shook me an email if you want to chat sweetie.
~K
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*slaps head*
ugh, but of course…my red-headed, cartoon-drawing-for-a-living- friend. I will take you up on that!!
Julie:
I’m NOT a cartoonist but in one of my journals I write in a few quick cartoon faces as a reference. Then I put the page number at the back of the journal for quick reference. This may work for you. You can do this ahead of time and then use it while doing your Graphic Facilitation.
Just an idea that works for me in my skechnotes.
…dave
Dave, your drawings are great! I’m totally going to borrow that idea and try drawing some of your faces for my own use.
Thanks so much for stopping by and helping me out!
Much appreciated.
The secret behind cartoons is exaggeration. If you have too much eye for reality, than it handicaps drawing emotions. I find it much easier to draw yellow mice with strong expressions, rather then human-like characters. Maybe that’s a help…
Christian