Had a great time with Kate Clark at BBC Radio Gloucester today, where I was the lunchtime guest. Kate was lovely. When she’s not on the radio on Saturday is she’s a reception teacher at school. Reception is like kindergarten.
Kate is also expecting her first child in five weeks. She’s going to be a busy lady!
We had so much to talk about – we chatted away a lot while the music was playing so you don’t get to hear that! You can hear the show for the next seven days by following this link:
Click here to take survey Since I have been making drawing videos on YouTube, I have come to realise that visual-thinkers around the world are not completely catered for by the education system. More than that, there are many confused older visual-thinkers who feel that they didn’t get what they wished they had from the education system. They now watch drawing videos to be part of something bigger, something they recognise in themselves.
I’ve also discovered that artists with a pencil in their hand transcend age barriers. The old can learn as much from the young and vice versa. That’s why I don’t dumb-down my videos or “talk down to the kids”. I find seven year old artists are just as intelligent and inquiring as those aged seventy.
That’s why I’ve started www.TheWednesdayDrawingShow.com Each week I follow a theme and viewers join in by uploading their drawings to the website. It’s early days. I’m finding my feet and learning what works and what doesn’t. You can see some great drawings here : Snake Gallery
However, I think the show and website could grow into a monster, which would be terrific! But in the meantime I need support to get established. I’ve thought of a few ideas that might raise cash for the project and would like your views. I’ve made an anonymous survey with some ideas I’d like your views on which you can fill in here.
I’m not asking for money, just to get an idea of how people might help, if they want to and attitudes to supporting such a venture. I could become a commercial operation, but I like the idea of everybody learning for free at the point of service – but this needs backing. Please have a look at the video below for more explanation and please take the survey to help me clarify my thinking.
Many thanks 🙂
In this week’s show, there are no excuses to start drawing right away. Shoo shows you that you don’t need expensive drawing materials to get started – he’s even done drawings with a matchstick when there wasn’t anything else to draw with!
YouTuber parsleygremlin asked how to draw eyes from the side, here’s a brief explanation of how to do it. I’ll make a more detailed video on Monday.
Lots in the Mail this week including a special brush that YouTuber, Frank Gatta has made specially for me!
After last week’s Show, Josh Bookout got in touch and promised to make a video about drawing celtic knots. He di and here is the link for a fascinating way of designing really complex patterns. Click here to watch and be amazed.
I’m moving the website gallery review to it’s own show on Sunday. It’s too much work to get it all done for Wednesdays and It will give me more time to spend on your drawings. Make sure you have Sundays in your Diary! If you would like the chance to have your artwork chosen to be critiqued on the Wednesday Show, then write “okay to crit on the show” in the comments box when you upload.
Have you tried drawing in Ball point pen? They are so cheap that people give them away as advertising gifts. They take a bit of getting used to, but if you change the angle of the pen as you draw, you’ll find you get different effect from the nib. Well, worth experimenting with. Last week, I drew a wolf in Biro which you can see here.
This week’s drawing task is to draw eyes in any style, but draw them on the cheapest paper or even an old cardboard box and use whatever you can find to draw with – even tomato ketchup! Have fun and upload them here.
If you missed last week’s show, never fear, catch it here.
click here to see what else has been going on on TheWednesdayDrawingShow.com
You can help support the Wednesday Drawing Show by buying Shoo’s books on amazon.com in the States and on amazon.co.uk and on iPad here.
