Just need a kick-start!

twirlagig

Hey all, I need a bit of inspiration! Promised myself I would get back in to art for 2012, to do something every month- today's the 24th and I'm still stuck!
Looking around me and I can't get going! Would like to get stuck in to pencil drawings again, was pretty good at it in school and love to get back in to it.
Any ideas? Will have to be home-based stuff, at least for now, as it's pitch dark when I get home from work

Doc

Self portrait?
Draw your pets?
Draw your hands?
Draw from memory what’s around you when you’re at work?

It really doesn’t matter what you draw just start!

briscotti

Hey there!!
I made the same commitment to myself!
Honestly i'd have done nothing this month either but I luckily found the trinity arts workshop website at the beginning of the month and quickly decided to go along to their drawing classes. The one i'm doing is 5 weeks and is really nice as it gives me a specific time to dedicate to art. It's €50 and I think it is worth it as I find knowing i've paid makes me go and not just duck out of it!!

If you are looking for something free / more casual - there is a group in Dublin called the Dublin Sketchers - they meet every Sunday at 2pm in various locations around Dublin..i'd recommend you click onto their blog and have a look, I have been to a couple of their annual exhibitions and there is some incredible work on display (and for sale) and it makes it so nice just knowing it was all done on a Sunday !! Best of luck with your ventures .

briscotti

also I would recommend the book Betty Edwards Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. :cool: Amazing, tbh.

Stripey Cat

There are a few different places which do drop-in life drawing classes around Dublin (you're in Dublin?) Sol Gallery in Dawson Street http://www.meetup.com/City-Life-Drawing/, Trinity Arts Workshop, United Arts Club... have a google.

If you're looking for a short course then NCAD do some over Easter - usually three days with a tutor. Give them a shout and ask them to send you an Easter brochure.

Tiriel

There's also Dublin Sketchers.. www.dublinsketchers.com
Totally free group, meet every Sunday. Website has all the info. It's not a class.. just an opportunity to get out there with other people and draw/paint!

twirlagig

Thanks all for the advice and encouragement! Dublin Sketchers sounds brilliant, but I am the other side of the country
But, I DID make a start this evening - made a few quick sketches of a can opener! Damn, I'm gone rusty though :mad: Hoping it'll come back soon!

littlebug

I'm doing the same this year I stupidly picked a spoon as my first subject... shiny curved surface =hard to draw for the most part at the minute I'm just scribbling really and copying sketches from books, internet etc til my eye/ hand get more used to it and I get more confident in doing my own thing.
Have I read somewhere about a galway sketchers group or did I imagine that

Tiriel

twirlagig wrote: »

Thanks all for the advice and encouragement! Dublin Sketchers sounds brilliant, but I am the other side of the country
But, I DID make a start this evening - made a few quick sketches of a can opener! Damn, I'm gone rusty though :mad: Hoping it'll come back soon!

Where are you based? The concept of Dublin Sketchers has spread, there is now a group in Galway, Cork and Bristol

joethatoom

A nice bit of landscape can always be inspirational