In Some thoughts on Sketch Books, I had mentioned that one of the things that I am concious of when drawing is that someone is going to look at my sketch later. On introspection, I felt that this gets in the way of my drawing because it ‘snaps’ me out of my involvement of my drawing repeatedly. I find myself unnecessarily prettying the drawing when I should be just going with the flow.
A Chess Metaphor
Perhaps I cannot articulate this properly, so let me use …

Sometimes when I sit down to draw from imagination, non-artist friends typically ask me how I’m doing that. “Do you first imagine the picture and then draw it?” My answer is “yes and no” most times. It’s because I don’t want to be bothered with getting into explaining how perception works and how messed up we all are in terms of understanding this. Well, I want to explain it now, if you’d like to listen.

In previous posts we covered 2 crucial aspects. What the process of drawing is and how one can learn to see the world differently through the process of drawing. Both these articles may be useful as a background to this post.
All artists meditate. In fact I would go as far as to say that true art is meditation, and that the process of creating is nothing more than coming to terms with what you really are. When the process is finished the end result is an empty shell. A reminder …