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Life drawing
Kevin,
When I took life drawing (30 years ago), I was told to throw out everything I had ever learned about drawing. I was not there to learn about drawing, I was there to learn how to "see". To get "back in the zone" forget about creating the perfect drawing and let your eyes rest on the model as simply shapes and line and shadow. Try some scribble drawings first. Paper is cheap, use lots! And loosen up, have fun, you are surrounded by life all day every day. Try spending some time every day seeing something new in the mundane, ordinary images you see all the time. A tree is no longer a tree, it becomes a wonderful swirling pattern of lines. Your child becomes electric, a sparkling mass of twinkling lights in constant motion. And draw it all--draw what you see and feel.
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