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Creative Potential

I was talking to a good Friend recently and like most of the conversation I have with this particular individual, the conversation became very deep.

we were talking about the current society, social decline and the general state of unhappiness people are living in. We talked about our personal experiences of this, one in particular I experienced the day before on a bus. the conversation led to us trying to understand why people are acting in such ways, then my friend said something that made me think back to something I read recently. I told him about this book and how brilliant it was.

The book I was talking about is a drawing book by Walt stanchfield called "Drawn to life"

I recommend this book for more than what it can offer your drawing ability, it's all about the philosophy of living and being creative. It sounds strange to say as it's primarily seen as a drawing Manuel, and it is, but it offers something more about drawing than just " this is how you draw a head, and this is how you draw the foot". Walt's like, if you wanna be good at drawing, go play tennis, or go for a run, keep healthy, experience life, go on holiday, for if your not experiencing what life has to offer, how can you re-create it. I urger everyone to go and by both volumes of this book and read it cover to cover.

Here's a quote from it that i read yesterday, it's exactly a point i was trying to make to my friend a couple of weeks ago about why i thought people are acting the way they are. this quote says it more beautifully as clearly than i did.

"Clearly and Simply, man is a creative being. if you take that away from him or if he relinquishes it himself, he is less than his potential"

-Walt stanchfield

This is a drawing I did to day to accompany my ramblings :)

Sketch book stuff

Don't know if I'm getting to picky with my drawings these days, but out of my last two sketchbooks these are the only drawings I liked, or thought worth posting.

been going life drawing lately so I'm gonna try and post some of that stuff soon.

Kid

This is a design of a kid for the film i'm trying to make. if you click on the image it will take you to the production blog where you can see other design and research for the film.

Keytar

Pencil

I found this really cool little animation freeware program called pencil. It's small and neat and easy really easy to use, plus it works and mac's as well as pc's.

I did this really little rought test with it.

Went life drawing again for the first time in a while and i found it really hard. I need to start going on the reggs. I'll post up SOME of the results of the session and some sketch book stuff in a couple of days.