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FREEING THE HAND if you need to make several attempts to grasp a concept. FREEINGTHEHAND
Drawing is exploratory, and mistakes are a valuable process
If you are just beginning to learn how to draw, try not to of learning. Try to keep all of your first drawings, even those
grip your pen worrying about the technical terms you might you dislike. Put them away and look at them later, at a point
have heard. Ignore these at first and allow yourself the when you feel you are not making progress; you will be
freedom to play. Start by choosing a material you like the surprised and encouraged to see how far you have come.
look of and cover a piece of paper with different marks.
Enjoy discovering what your hand and the material can One of the advantages of a drawing book is that you can
do. Choose other materials and do the same. Much will be shut it. Pages do not have to lie open for other people to
learned on these test sheets and in your first drawings, just inspect and comment on. It is yours. Such books are
through the act of making. With no help and advice at all, personal: the territory of new exploration and experiment;
you will naturally make progress on your own in response potential ideas still forming; diary-like observations; and
to concentration and the decision to look and draw. As you miscellaneous items of inspiration.
follow lessons in this book, take your time and don't worry
