Concepts for Drawing

I hope I haven’t bored you with all this analysis, but I feel strongly about having my efforts depicted with all the integrity due a gesture.

25 Concepts for Drawing I’m planning on taking a few months off so I thought I’d load you down (maybe that should read, load you “up” — for this is all inspirational stuff) with some heavy but basic drawing concepts that you can mull over in my absence. In directing my thoughts mainly to the artists who feel they still need further enlightenment, I sometimes wonder if I am getting too complicated, analytical, and long winded. I don’t mean it to be complicated — I just try to approach drawing from as many directions as possible. Being a “crab” (July) it comes natural to me. Ward Kimball once said: “If I can take a thing apart and put it back together again, I can draw it. ” Well, that sure means seeing it from all angles, doesn’t it? So the more you know about any subject the easier it is to deal with it — and the more simple it becomes. In the words of Andrew Wyeth: “When you lose simplicity you lose drama. ”