Mel Rye

Live Encore: Practicing Mindful Drawing With Patterns

I love the way you have used tge solid black with the line work.

Thank you! It’s nice to keep it simple sometimes :)

Hi Julia, thank you so much for watching the class and leaving this brilliant class project! It's great to see your shape library and circle and line experiments too! Your circle drawing looks fabulous, I love the variety of different patterns you have incorporated into it, and you have some great contrast from shading in areas which has worked beautifully! And how brilliant to see you have taken the process digital too - your procreate version is just lovely - it has a lovely texture to it! How did you find drawing digitally compared with drawing on paper? I use Procreate to draw patterns sometimes too, I love it for the variety of colours and textures I can get, although I often feel drawn back to analog materials after a while :) Just wanted to let you know that you are entered into my giveaway having posted this class project and also note youre on my mailing list - full details of the giveaway are in this discussion post (you don't have long to wait as I'll be picking a winner at random this Friday!): <a href="https://www.skillshare.com/en/userProfile/discussionShow?username=1438126&amp;discussionId=343649" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">www.skillshare.com/en/userProfile/discussionShow?username=1438126&amp;discussionId=343649</a> Thank you again for taking the class and sharing this wonderful set of drawings - and best of luck with the giveaway!

Thank you Mel! And thank you for all your mindful drawing classes- they really help me to slow down creatively and they remind me that (for me at least) so much of the joy of being creative is in the process rather than creating a finished piece. 

I currently create, the majority of the time, digitally on my iPad (due to it being more accessible for me at the moment because of my chronic illness) however when it comes to this kind of drawing I think I prefer the analog better too. When I’m drawing digitally my inner critic/ perfectionism is much more prominent, I think partly because of the ease of the undo button! However not having an easy undo when drawing analog means I’m going much slower and I find I’m able to embrace the imperfections or mistakes much better and that perfectionist voice is much quieter. I definitely hope to continue finding little pockets of time to continue drawing these patterns with pen and paper! 

And thanks so much for entering me into your giveaway! Very exciting!! :) 
Julia

My shape library and testing out different circle &amp; line patterns/ ideas: <img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/575394a7.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/575394a7.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/575394a7.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Practicing Mindful Drawing With Patterns - image 1 - student project"> My final drawing exercise:<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/7e8dc6f0.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/7e8dc6f0.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/7e8dc6f0.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Practicing Mindful Drawing With Patterns - image 2 - student project">
A digital version I’ve been working on in Procreate over the last few days:<img srcset="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/26752223.jpeg 600w, https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/26752223.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" src="https://static.skillshare.com/uploads/project/e66412a9ab3f52377582ca0cec086be9/26752223.jpeg" loading="lazy" alt="Practicing Mindful Drawing With Patterns - image 3 - student project">

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