Simple but colourful

On the one hand, I love colours. I have a nice set of coloured pencils. On the other hand, I love lines and I don't like spending hours on colouring a drawing. I would love to concentrate more on lines again when drawing, but it's not easy to do without any colour all the time.

One solution could be colourful lines. I have recently bought this cheap multi-coloured pencil. It has blue, red and yellow next to each other. There are better ones than this, but with turning around the pencil once in a while it works quite well. It can make a simple drawing look rather interesting.

A rose

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." - Claude Monet

When you want to draw, but don't know what, you have the option to go to sites offering free photos, like pixabay, and look for a nice photo of, for example, a flower. Find a quote that suits your subject and you will end up with a nice, meaningful page.

It would be even nicer to draw from a real rose. Drawing from life is said to be the real thing and, yes, it is great if you can do this. But you can't always do it, so you have to find other options. Taking a photo when you see something interesting and drawing from it later on, is also a good way to find subjects. Whatever you do, in the end you will have created another pretty drawing.

Why draw?

Why spend your time and energy on drawing? Because of health issues I often feel there's a brake inside me, that tries to prevent me from drawing. I guess, it wants me to save my energy for the important things in life. I find myself constantly trying to persuade this voice that drawing, being creative is important.

But why is it important? One thing I know for sure is, that I have always had this urge to be creative. I have been doing web design as a hobby for a long time now. I occasionally have created graphics. Drawing is my newest creative endeavour. You just need some paper and a pen or pencil and there you go. Where there was a blank page, there is a nice little drawing afterward. You have created something. What a great feeling is that?!

Humankind has come this far, because we are a creative species. It's in our fabric. And drawing is just one way to be creative.

The only challenge is to find out what you want to draw. What interests you enough to grab a pencil and recreate it on a piece of paper. Keep your eyes open and you'll find out.

Introduction

I have been drawing for 20 months now. I started back then, because I wanted a creative hobby, that you can do on a daily basis without needing lots of material initially. So I decided to learn a bit about the basics of drawing, practiced and soon found out, that it is easier than everybody thinks. And after all, you don't have to be perfect for it to be fun and for your drawings to be valuable. You are free to find your own way of drawing.

While drawing as often as possible, I often find myself thinking a lot about this craft and me doing it. I certainly like drawing and sketching in sketchbooks. They are like journals you can browse through again and again and see what you were up to when you filled them.

I am going to share my thoughts about drawing here and hopefully will dare to share one or the other drawing.