Hi Mr Noob!! We started January 1 with the goal of exchanging an email that includes a drawing every day in 2025. Surely, we thought, we would see some improvement by the end of the year! We are posting daily on the website and then subscribers get a weekly wrap-up post that includes links to each day’s drawing efforts (among other things). It would be terrific if you would like to join in - just post your daily drawing in the comment so we can see what you’ve been up to! We have at least one other person who is taking part, though she has opted not to share publicly… The more the merrier, I say! As a subscriber (free) you should be able to skip back through past posts to see the kinds of things we’ve been trying.
This is neat. I've never read Kurosawa's book but I admire his films, and this such a fun project.
I relate to this because I remember my neighbor growing up as feeling big and revisiting years later as an adult and finding it small.
I'm looking forward to your next post. It's great that you're publishing even if you're not feeling it's there all the way. That quote by Austin Kleon explains it all.
I him in the tub and the water and the lamp. I'd have found it hard to picture and then draw. It is sometimes worth pausing and leaving a piece before publishing because sometimes you come back with fresh eyes and see something to add.
Really interesting about childhood memories. I do also remember things being big, I visited my school many years later and everything seemed so small!! My earliest memory is being in an oxygen tent and screaming for my mother. Otherwise being on the swing in my garden was a nicer memory!
In some ways, reading his book is like reading somewhat, stories of my grandparents, and the early parts are either pre-WW2 or even pre-WW1, a hark back in time in many ways.
The tub, having seen such a thing, was not that hard to picture. But Japanese kitchen-cum-bathroom before industrialisation was hard to think of!
Like Kurosawa-san says himself, all I can mostly picture is dull dark fuzzy stuff.
Not yet sure how to depict that - with pen and paper or even digitally. Would you have any suggestions?
I did sit with this one for an extra week, but somehow I kept coming back to just this same way of viewing it. Possibly cos this is what it seems like I'm reading?
What you suggested last week of just letting it go helped, cos I did see more in perspective. This was probably my fastest written piece start to end, because I just tuned off for a bit.
As in not being able to visualise and it being dark dull fuzzy stuff? I can't visualise either. I guess it'd be something like when you use digital colouring in but on the setting where it's not thick colour, but a diffuse grey? Maybe with blurred slightly darker shapes?
A clear plastic tent with oxygen pumped into when I was really bad with asthma. I remember being scared because you shouldn't put plastic bags over your head because you won't be able to breathe & that's what it felt like!
Seems we are on a similar journey :) My friend Sarah and I are exchanging daily drawings in an effort to learn to draw this week. Keep going!!
Thank you @Nikki Tate ! I just hopped over by your blog and Looks like we are! 🙌
I like your idea of exchanging drawings - are you doing it only for this week, or longer? I would love ot partake in it as well!
Hi Mr Noob!! We started January 1 with the goal of exchanging an email that includes a drawing every day in 2025. Surely, we thought, we would see some improvement by the end of the year! We are posting daily on the website and then subscribers get a weekly wrap-up post that includes links to each day’s drawing efforts (among other things). It would be terrific if you would like to join in - just post your daily drawing in the comment so we can see what you’ve been up to! We have at least one other person who is taking part, though she has opted not to share publicly… The more the merrier, I say! As a subscriber (free) you should be able to skip back through past posts to see the kinds of things we’ve been trying.
This is neat. I've never read Kurosawa's book but I admire his films, and this such a fun project.
I relate to this because I remember my neighbor growing up as feeling big and revisiting years later as an adult and finding it small.
I'm looking forward to your next post. It's great that you're publishing even if you're not feeling it's there all the way. That quote by Austin Kleon explains it all.
I him in the tub and the water and the lamp. I'd have found it hard to picture and then draw. It is sometimes worth pausing and leaving a piece before publishing because sometimes you come back with fresh eyes and see something to add.
Really interesting about childhood memories. I do also remember things being big, I visited my school many years later and everything seemed so small!! My earliest memory is being in an oxygen tent and screaming for my mother. Otherwise being on the swing in my garden was a nicer memory!
Thanks!
In some ways, reading his book is like reading somewhat, stories of my grandparents, and the early parts are either pre-WW2 or even pre-WW1, a hark back in time in many ways.
The tub, having seen such a thing, was not that hard to picture. But Japanese kitchen-cum-bathroom before industrialisation was hard to think of!
Like Kurosawa-san says himself, all I can mostly picture is dull dark fuzzy stuff.
Not yet sure how to depict that - with pen and paper or even digitally. Would you have any suggestions?
I did sit with this one for an extra week, but somehow I kept coming back to just this same way of viewing it. Possibly cos this is what it seems like I'm reading?
What you suggested last week of just letting it go helped, cos I did see more in perspective. This was probably my fastest written piece start to end, because I just tuned off for a bit.
As in not being able to visualise and it being dark dull fuzzy stuff? I can't visualise either. I guess it'd be something like when you use digital colouring in but on the setting where it's not thick colour, but a diffuse grey? Maybe with blurred slightly darker shapes?
I am not really sure how to get tht digital colouring in - I have to see what ways people do it!
That blurry diffused shapes is a good idea - onwards to youtube!
Good luck!
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What's an oxygen tent? 🤔
A clear plastic tent with oxygen pumped into when I was really bad with asthma. I remember being scared because you shouldn't put plastic bags over your head because you won't be able to breathe & that's what it felt like!
Oh boy. Stuff that feeds claustrophobia and nightmares! Is it still as bad?
No it's all good thanks, just a scary early memory!