Art Ideas for Inspiration: Drawing From a Photo Collage

Video Transcript

"Now you can just stay with the photo collage and you now can even, now it's real easy to take some of these photos off to your local drug store and enlarge them so that you can play with different sizes of these, but, you know, you can also draw from them and, you know, now you have, again, a sort of an abstract and, you know, maybe you'll be able to generate a drawing based on the abstract and what I, what my eye goes to right away is, because this is a big solid shape, my eye goes right there. So that's probably what I'm going to start with with my drawing, but then, you know, it's repeated over here smaller and that's not such a bad thing. So I would start my drawing with, you know, that big rock and it's kind of like this and then there's this other rock that's sort of leaning against it. So I'm going to simplify the shapes right now, but I know that I've got a side of a rock, a front of a rock, and then I've got this other rock up here that sort of has a side and a front so that just keeps me oriented. So I've got those two, but then I've got this happening here and I'm thinking well where does that go and does that make a picture? And this actually gets repeated, but that's going to be too repetitive for me so I'm going to maybe work on this over here and add that in and that kind of lines up with that little line there. So I'm going to work on that, but, you know, this is a way, again, if you can't get outside or, you know, you don't like the particular collection. You like that part of the rock, but you don't like it with this, then you take, you know, you can take a photo, let's see this one might work, and put this over here to cover that problem and see if that makes a better drawing. So, you know, this is a way, again, to visually think it out. Partly through drawing and partly responding by moving around your, you know, the sources of your image."