You probably bought into it too. The notion that only the special, magical person
with that certain unspecified quality called "talent" can lift a pencil to a page and
construct a picture.
You know thats a load of baloney don't you?
Drawing is a skill, just like any other skill, and it can be taught.
The problem is that what passes for teaching of art, is more often than not, a
carefully designed tactic to discourage one from taking up the craft. Rather than
teaching you the concepts and principles of visual representation, you are taught a
convoluted set of steps, techniques and procedures, that often times test the students
resolve and tenacity rather than teaching them to communicate by visual means.
Teaching Art via "the concepts"
There are concepts that govern visual communication, just as there are concepts that
drive the written communication (like symbols with phonetic meaning - the alphabet,
syntax, grammar and the like). Plunking you down in the middle of 3 point perspective
technique or color theory is like expecting someone to write a short story without
knowing the alphabet.
I propose to teach you the visual alphabet, and some grammar and syntax, so you CAN
begin to use visual communication-in your work, your studies and in your life.
The following material is my approach in a nutshell, to teaching people to draw. It
is a series of concepts and ideas that when used together grant the individual the
means to make pictures that communicate effectively. I can give this same material in
person, in a more comprehensive form, but the essentials are all here.
You know thats a load of baloney don't you?