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Try to think of your drawing as a guide or
map to follow to help you paint. It is not necessary to produce a
perfect likeness to be filled in later. Just try for some of the
major shapes, drawn loosely and lightly - pastel pencil is good
for this.
Drawing doesn't have to be limited to the first stages of a
painting. Try working lines of pastel pencil or ink into your
painting as it progresses
I encourage all my students to buy a couple of cheap, blank, A4
pads and fill them up with sketches - draw anything - don't try
and produce good finished drawings and don't look for interesting
subjects. Draw anything that happens to be in front of you. Try
and see your subject as an arrangement of abstract, positive and
negative shapes. Disassociating yourself from the subject in this
way forces you to draw what is actually there rather than your
perception of the subject.
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