I just found this page yesterday and want to start. (ADHD dopamine does best if I start while it's still shiny+ I have vacation free time) But, I'm on a road trip for the next week and don't have A1 paper with me. I do have my A5 notebook with dot grid. Is that ok for staring on the first lesson, or should I really try to wait till I'm home with bigger blank sheets?
Hello there,
Welcome to this amazing course! I hope you have some fun while doing it.
So, in lesson 0, they explain all the details about the required material. You are mentioning A1 paper, but in reality the course mostly expects you to use A4. I am quoting lesson 0 here:
"All I ask is that you don't draw on lined paper... or like, napkins. In fact, above all else, I highly recommend using regular printer paper. It's a great size (A4, 8.5"x11")"
I don't think the dot grid would fit into the requirements unfortunately (it is technically a lined paper?)
I would encourage you to try the lessons regardless, however! Perhaps this can keep your momentum going for when you are able to work on A4 sheets and make your homework submission. Enjoy your trip!
Cheers,
Thanks!
I think that instead of starting on the course while on your roadtrip (which is inevitably going to undermine how well you can really approach the work to the best of your current ability - being on the road doesn't offer a ton of quiet, stable places to work at a desk anyway), it might be better to spend your time developing a more comfortable relationship with drawing in general. Normally I'd recommend getting ahead on the "play" portion of the 50% rule, but since you're on a roadtrip and are probably seeing all kinds of new and interesting things, I think you should use your notebook to draw the various things you see.
This sort of thing - which is referred to as "travel journaling" used to be really common, before the advent of photography, although people still indulge in it a fair bit today. They combine crude/rough drawings (knowing how to draw is not necessary, because at the end of the day this is just for you) and writing to really capture your individual experience of a trip.
I'll give that a try, thanks!
I'm traveling with a little watercolor kit and playing with landscapes already. But my paintings look best to me when I keep them impressionistic, any time I try to sketch on details it goes all wrong. Can't get the lines on the page to look like they do in my head.
Looking for tips and info about online classes is how I found this site.
Side note, I'm a professional trainer in science ethics, and I really appreciate the approach this site takes with a combo of audio, video, reading and application. It's how I like to approach adult learning and I'm shocked such great info is being made so available to anyone willing to take the time. just ????
Right from when students hit the 50% rule early on in Lesson 0, they ask the same question - "What am I supposed to draw?"
It's not magic. We're made to think that when someone just whips off interesting things to draw, that they're gifted in a way that we are not. The problem isn't that we don't have ideas - it's that the ideas we have are so vague, they feel like nothing at all. In this course, we're going to look at how we can explore, pursue, and develop those fuzzy notions into something more concrete.
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