Drawing as an ACT

I make drawings all the time and work hard to create finished successful works. These drawings are the product. If I was only working for the product, I doubt I would draw much at all. I don’t say this to dismiss the product but to glorify the act. 

Drawing is a direct extension of your mind. Think mind, hand, paper. All working in concert. 

When you choose to make a drawing about something, you invite laser focus. Time slows down. You are at attention. 

I teach courses about this, Total Essential Knowledge, and often participants share their concerns that they cannot draw. They are stuck until we shift our thinking from drawing as the struggle to make a perfect (or successful) art object to drawing as an act.

Drawing is a conscious decision to slow down, to decide, to focus on one thing. We use drawing to explore new ideas, remember the past, communicate our research, or imagine a new future. 

Drawing is the perfect tool for embracing the process over the object.