Blog 14: What is your drawing history? Where have your notions of the role of drawing in art come from? How do you manage your “drawing anxiety?” After reading Kalin’s chapter, describe how you might mentor an anxious draw-er into the joy of mark-making.
I do not have much drawing history, but I sure have a lot of drawing anxiety. I’m learning that I am a very abstract artist more than a realistic one. As a younger person, throughout elementary and high school, I thought this meant I was not artistic at all, because when I looked at the other kid’s pictures and my pictures, mine weren’t as good. For example, I cannot draw a straight line to save my life, but I am very good at drawing abstract pictures, particularly at mixing colors and making backgrounds. I’ve learned to manage my drawing anxiety in two ways. Firstly, I have practiced drawing enough that I feel confident that I am a decent artist. Secondly, I have realized that I, like everyone, have strengths and weaknesses, and that being better at abstractism than realism does not make me a bad artist.
I think this knowledge is something I could express to children who think they aren’t good artists. Everyone is good at some aspect of art, it’s just that some of us aren’t good at realistic art and therefore have to look a little harder to find what we’re good at. I hope that I could use a holistic approach to discover what a child who is an anxious draw-er is good at, and help them to become more developed in that area of art, whatever it may be.
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