I want to learn how to draw better
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Someday I want to make things as pretty and communicative as Mike Rohde’s sketchnotes, Erica Glasier’s blog posts, Franke James’ visual essays. I want to capture scenes like those in urban sketches.
I want to be able to see more clearly, imagine more vividly, and create more expressively. Looking forward to making a habit of drawing. It’ll be fun!
10 comments
Erica
2010-06-17T05:16:37ZAw, thanks, Sacha! My mom says she couldn't get me to do anything but colour when I was a little kid.
Making a habit of drawing is the ONLY way to get there, but fortunately it IS extremely fun.
Linda
2010-06-17T19:24:51ZI too wish I drew better - but as I tell my GT students creativity is not about drawing - it's about ideas and you have great creativity! I love your blog and have forwarded several entries on to friends and family. Thank you for introducing me to Franke James. I will be sharing several of these post with my GT students next year!
jehzlau
2010-08-26T11:17:08Zwooooot! Me... I want to draw stuff as pretty and communicative as Sacha Chua's doodles. :)
Sacha Chua
2010-08-26T16:33:52ZI'm getting better at drawing, and I enjoy it more. =) Funny how that works out! I doodle during slow moments in meetings, and I experiment with interesting things to draw for presentations...
jehzlau: Drawing is fun to learn. Enjoy!
jehzlau
2010-08-26T23:54:15ZWow that's great! I think I'm getting better as well. Look at how I improved my Blue Stickman doodles from year 2008 to year 2009. :D
And oh, please feel free to criticize my doodles so that I can improve my work. ^__^
Sacha Chua
2010-08-27T00:37:56Z<laugh> Your drawings are terrific, and they fit into your site very well. Do you have a blog post about how you draw (and how you customize the font on your blog to match)? =) If not, you should write about that!
jehzlau
2010-08-27T00:43:22Zwoooooooot! Great post idea! I don't have a post about it yet. O__O. I draw using my laptop's trackpad, sometimes with my desktop's mouse :D
I created my own TTF and used it in my blog. :D A lot of websites posted about it already of how to use custom fonts in your website, but I guess I will write about it as well. The new font style in my blog's post titles (Jehzlau Concepts True Type Font) was just implemented yesterday. Haha :D
I'm actually writing a post about my new custom font now.. :P
Sacha Chua
2010-08-27T01:12:40ZTrue, but it's always good to hear, of the many different ways you've tried, which works well for you. =)
I've been meaning to make a font sometime, too...
jehzlau
2010-08-27T01:37:59ZYay! great! My post for ways to create custom fonts is almost finish! Looking forward for you to be my first reader, as my readers in the Philippines are asleep right now. Hahaha :D
jehzlau
2010-08-27T02:07:19ZHi Sacha! Here's my post about the custom font. I just published it a few seconds ago. :D