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The Art of Scribble Imagine yourself as a child. You are lying on the floor, crayon in hand, busily scribbling the afternoon away. Your arm makes big, sweeping florishes across the page as you create an imaginary land populated by pink trees, orange dinosaurs, and soothing purple waters. To the untrained eye, your drawing looks like nothing more than the visual equivalent of gibberish. Parent types and other such persons smile, pat you on the head, and keep walking. They chuckle to themselves; you haven't drawn anything real, but at least you are keeping quiet and out of their hair. You chuckle to yourself because you know better. Not only have you "drawn something"; you have created a whole new world out of nothing but a few bold strokes and curlicues. Somewhere along the way, you lost your penchant for curlicues. You decided that the goal of drawing was to draw something real. You stopped drawing for yourself and began drawing for other people. Pretty soon, you probably stopped drawing altogether. You convinced yourself that there is no artistic value in an imaginary pink tree. Oh, how wrong you are. Over the past couple of months, I have been practicing what I call scribble art. I simply grab the nearest medium, scrawl all over some paper, and then set the paper aside. Hours and sometimes days pass before I pick it up again. I look at the swirls with fresh eyes, and suddenly I see images of genies, rabbits, and Japanese ponds. Sometimes, I add a few additional strokes to the picture in order to bring out the shape that I see. But, more often than not, I just leave it. The picture's potential is part of its beauty. ![]() Some Tips:
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![]() Green Bunny |
![]() Genie |
![]() Girl With Her Hair Blowing in the Wind |
Pond ![]() ![]() Once you get started with scribble art, it becomes addictive. If you feel silly at first or have problems letting go of your creative inhibitions, find the nearest small child and ask him or her to help you. Scribbling is fun (I promise!) and most of these pictures won't take up more than five minutes of your time. They come in handy, too. When you are in a mood in which it seems that writing out actual words is too much effort, you can simply scribble something that conveys the emotions of the day. The most important thing is that you use your imagination. You are training your mind to see possibilities. Possibility is what creativity is all about. ![]() © 2001 Dawn R. Vinson. All Rights Reserved. |