Did you ever consider drawing?

[Fabian]

Today at my dentist, there was a picture I really liked and as I came closer I realised it was a drawing, but it was so good that it looked like a photograph.
I was thinking about all the possibilities this would give me. Its all in your hand, the lighting the people, the composition.

If you missed a shot or messed up exposure you just go home and paint the damn thing.

Gas would be limited to new pens and papers.😀

Unfortunately I suck at drawing even more than at photography, but maybe one of you guys???

Fabian

 

[rogue_designer]

have you seen the cost of good pens recently?

Leicas are almost cheeper. 😉

I haven't really done much since I finished my degree (10+ years ago) - but I do enjoy painting.

 

[ibcrewin]

I want to project a slide onto a sheet of paper and "trace" it.

 

[Finder]

What is wrong with Photoshop?

 

[Morca007]

I drew when I was little, then, as I got older, I realized I was horrible at it.

 

[matt fury]

I used to draw when I was little, but even then, I was just trying to draw things I saw elsewhere. Kinda like taking a picture with a pencil. I would be happy to be able to draw, but if I was going to learn an art like that, I'd much rather that it was painting.

 

[Jocko]

I gave up photography in favour of drawing for 15 years, because it seemed an inadequate medium - how could it fully reflect the imagination when it depended on the grey, solid world outside? I had partly been influenced by the disenchanted 19th century British photographer Emerson, but I also knew two people - one pro photographer and one picture editor (with Magnum) - who felt exactly the same. In the case of the former, he threw his Leicas in the Ganges and cursed ever thinking that the outer world was worthy of notice.

But... The artist who seeks only to explore the inner imagination, without reference to the outer world, very easily becomes stuck in a rut: drawing has its thoughtless banalities and lazy mechanical cliches, just like any other activity. The creative mind needs stimulation - the external world feeds the inner which in turn transforms our understanding of the outer. In truth, I think that both drawing and photography require similar levels of imagination, skill and the unique realisation of the creative moment if the practitioner is to produce work of genuine value.

I would also argue that they stimulate each other, for both ultimately attempt to give form to inner vision albeit by different routes.

Cheers, Ian

 

[nikon_sam]

If I could draw I would not own all these cameras...simple as that...
I have a cousin that is so talented when it comes to drawing...pencil and paper is about all he needs...
He is also a grad of the Pasadena Art Center...he was great even before going there...

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I'm absolutely no artist, and I've not done anything recently, but I always doodle and sketch when I get the chance.

Something I drew over a decade ago....

 

[venchka]

I tried drawing. I sucked at it. Picked up a camera. I suck at that too, but I like it. I couldn't make a living with a camera. I started earning a living with a T-square, technical pens & LeRoy set. Still there today. Earning my living making technical drawings and sucking at photography. 😀 🙂 😎

 

[shadowfox]

I can start drawing, but I don't have the patience and passion to finish it. 🙂

 

[sepiareverb]

I started out in college to be an illustrator, found myself loving the process of making the pictures I used for reference more than I liked the drawing itself!

 

[iml]

I would really like to paint, but I just lack the skill, so I take photographs instead.

Ian

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I went to art school with the intention of majoring in photography. I already knew that I sucked at Drawing and had been into photography since I was a kid. I got my first manual 35mm camera, an Olympus OM-G SLR, when I was 11.

In art school, they make all students take a couple semesters in each of the forms of art that they teach, to give you a rounded experience of the arts and to see if you have any desire to do any other kind of art. I actually became decent at drawing once I had some formal training, and I do a little drawing in my graphic design work that I do, but I don't draw as "Fine Art" anymore, just photography.

 

[back alley]

Did you ever consider drawing?

so...you've seen my photos then?

😉

 

[MJones]

Still do...

Still do...

...but getting more into photography as another medium. Apologies if embedding or linking doesn't work (not sure what I'm doing here on that)

here's some samplework (not updated for several years but still doing similar work www.thelocustproject.com - select fine arts

 

[jlw]

I drew the little pictures on the backs of packages of a very widely-sold brand of boneless fried chicken, the ones that show you how to arrange the pieces for microwaving.

Somehow I don't find this as artistically satisfying as photography, even though literally tens of millions of people have seen my "works of art"...

 

[ywenz]

I like to draw and design... haven't done much of it lately though. My interest has been more on the photography side.. maybe it'll change one day. Do most of my drawings on my wacom + corel painter these days..

circa 2003:

 

[landsknechte]

I haven't really done much since I was in art school. I have to be in a very specific mindset to create any drawings that I don't immediately self-critique into oblivion, and it was never easy to get into that mode. Photography has always been a lot more natural and instinctive for me.

 

[wolves3012]

I drew when I was little, then, as I got older, I realized I was horrible at it.

So I'm not alone then! A 2 year-old can usually put me to shame when it comes to drawing...