I’m lucky. My mother is a printmaker, my father a ceramist. I grew up in a family that celebrates art, and I’ve always drawn. In my bag is journal, pencils, and crayons.
“Where did you get your imagination? If you had to guess what would you say?” -Lynda Barry, Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor
I posted the above to a different thread expecting them to look it up. Perhaps this time a
link to book.
Syllabus |
https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/syllabus
with a YouTube
Linda Barry Forward Motion (5min)
https://youtu.be/FhOU6HUjL6Y
and expanding with another youtube (
https://youtu.be/B-uZiszbo7M) learn something hard in 3 weeks.
Harder to do is sustain, growing beyond the how and where. I try to gather the good around me.
most important is avoiding the toxic influence. when being around those who aren’t artists, or able to live with their creativity fully engaged it becomes difficult to avoid the toxic or destructive —only way I know of achieving this is by disengaging in the way of Krav — principles not technique
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