Fearless Drawing: Illustrated Adventures for Overcoming Artistic Adversity

131 Pages·2014·8.29 MB·English

by  Kerry Lemon

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Text © 2014 Kerry Lemon
Illustrations © 2014 Kerry Lemon
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ISBN: 978-1-59253-916-1
Digital edition published in 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lemon, Kerry.
Fearless drawing : 22 illustrated adventures for overcoming artistic
adversity / Kerry Lemon.
pages cm
1. Drawing--Technique. 2. Drawing--Psychological aspects. I. Title.
NC730.L45 2014
741.2--dc23
2013048659
Design: www.Studioink.co.uk
Printed in China
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CONTENTS
Introduction 6
1. Hello Pencil 8
2. Hello Eraser 16
3. Drawing as Pattern 22
4. Drawing as Frottage 28
5. Drawing with Scissors 36
6. Drawing as Collage 42
7. Hello Brush 46
8. Continuous-Line Drawing 52
9. Drawing with Wire 56
10. Drawing as Print 62
11. Hello Ink 68
12. Drawing as Space 74
13. Drawing Blind 78
14. Drawn to Sound 82
15. Drawing Again and Again 88
16. Drawn to Mono Printing 94
17. Drawing as Stitch 98
18. Drawing from Your Imagination 104
19. Drawn to Growth 108
20. Print Masterclass 112
21. Drawing Masterclass 118
22. Continuing Your Adventure 124
Acknowledgments 128
About the Author 128
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I love drawing.
This is lucky because I spend every I am completely addicted to the power this light, but rather as something which
day drawing. and pleasure that drawing affords me. only a few lucky people are naturally
Each day I get to start out with a blank talented at. This is rubbish.
I’m an artist and my drawings are sheet of paper and create ANYTHING I
commissioned internationally for lots of can imagine. I feel the same way about We all started out naturally and
clients including the Los Angeles Times, drawing today as I did when I was a unselfconsciously drawing in childhood;
Sony Japan, Heineken, Swarovski, Harper’s child. The physical pleasure of sweeping enjoying the physical PROCESS of applying
Bazaar, De Beers, Elle Spain, Harrods, and marks, scrubbing felt-tipped pens, and paint or crayon to paper, unconcerned
Le Bon Marché. smearing paint. Exploring, defining and with the finished artwork, the PRODUCT
creating the real and imagined world and of our creativity. The problem is that early
capturing it all just how I see fit. on we are made to focus on the product,
the result of our labor. We are encouraged
There is nothing I would rather do. to accurately capture the world around us,
and gradually our ability to draw is defined
When I tell people what I do for a living by how close to reality the finished
a frequent response is a version of product is. Most of us quickly become
“I wish I could draw!”, but there is so disheartened. We spend miserable hours
much baggage and fear attached to it. in class attempting to draw a bowl of
I regularly teach workshops particularly fruit accurately, grinding endless erasers
focusing on people who feel nervous to dust in a miserable attempt to get
drawing. The idea of being able to draw it “right.” The pleasure of the process
is so attractive, and yet unless we already becomes merely an academic battle
feel confident in our abilities it is seen to turn a three-dimensional world into
as an unreachable goal. This is such a two dimensions on your page. You are
shame. If we aspired to play the guitar judged by yourself, peers, and teachers,
then the fact that we were not already and it is quickly determined who in
accomplished wouldn’t prevent us, we the class can and can’t draw. It is this
would just begin, practice, and from environment that makes people stop
wobbly beginnings would improve. For drawing. It was that environment that
some reason drawing is not viewed in nearly made me stop drawing!
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Today my drawings are fairly can become your private refuge, a
representative but include lots of place to hide away, explore, create and
wibbly wobbly lines, dodgy perspective, do something just for you. By actively
and made up bits. I change the world seeking enjoyment in drawing (focusing
however I choose, adding petals to on the process), we will begin to draw
a flower or removing entire floors of regularly, and by drawing regularly
buildings. I take pleasure in creating MY our work (the product) will inevitably
version of the world through drawing. improve! I want you to be inspired, to
Much of my work is fibs and fiddles. experiment, and to discover or recover
Absorbed in the process I add zigzag your own drawing voice. It is designed
tiles, stripes, and spots which in reality to create a new relationship with your
do not exist. I am not a camera, the drawing, a chance to reconnect and
work is not a carbon copy of the world, appreciate your unique drawn line.
but each drawing speaks of the world
whilst also speaking very loudly of me. Drawing brings me so much happiness
There is no one way to draw and I am every day and has completely influenced
wholly uninterested in trying to make the way I view the world and observe
you draw like me. I want you to have the my surroundings. It offers a freedom and
confidence and freedom of expression power to create, escape, relax, indulge,
to draw like you. Drawing is like hand- and explore, and I am so excited to share
writing. Only by embracing the marks my passion and enthusiasm with you.
that our own hands can make and
exploring our own drawn response to the
real (and imagined) world will you find
your own way forward.
I have written this book to make you fall
in love with the process of drawing again,
to rediscover the physical pleasure and
joy of putting pencil to page. Drawing
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