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acknowledgments

contentsIntroductionCHAPTER 1Doodling and NoodlingCHAPTER 2Drawing a New RealityCHAPTER 3Stretching the TruthCHAPTER 4Visualizing IdeasCHAPTER 5StorytellingCHAPTER 6Exploring PatternCHAPTER 7Mining Culture

introduction

generatinq and transforming your ideas

Doodling andNoodlingPRINCIPLES OF DOODLINGThinkof the doodle as the first stage—the generating stage.To doodle isThe second stage, which I call "noodling," is the transforming stage in whiBy separating these two functions you diver that each involves differentrom doodling to noodling. Doodling is pure play—often aimless and free,doodling operations are more often rule-based, involving a set of discreet

the two-step "doodlinq and noodlinq" process

noodlinq to transform a doodle

doodling ideas: geometries and waves

Waves

doodling ideas: tangles and shape dusters

doodling ideas: building blocks

noodlinq ideas: silhouetting

noodling ideas: shading

noodlinq ideas: multiplying

reversing, inverting and mirror imaging

inventing icon c charactershabittheirworkJcallota rT' tiT-A CREATIVE SEQUENCE FOR CHARACTERS

letterformsVUIS i 'CHHS"fin) ft

noodlinq ideas: mixing and matching

add-on doodles

Drawing aNew Reality2

it starts with shape1

Hard and Soft Edges

add-on drawings

crumpled, dented, crushed

melted and deformed

macro drawing

distorted reflections

mirror imagingThereis something satisfying in symmetry. When you hold acomposed of identical halves. Your mind shifts to a pattern

obscuring

obscuring with dramatic light and shadow

sketching the unusual

Stretchingthe Truth

exaggerating proportions

emphasizing differences

playing with scale

muforced distortion

distortion grids

perspective grids

making a perspective grid

- Prmetaphoric seeing

inspiration in the clouds

odd juxtapositions

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VisualizingIdeas

the evolution of an idea

joining two bags

variations on a theme

GIDON STAFF

reversing

one idea triggers another

STEVEN GUARNACCIAA Fertile Thinker With a Deft Pen

Stoiytelling5

words and pictures

making it vivid

intensifying the action

inventing characters

modeling characters in clay

TRINA SCHART HYMAN

recycling your doodles

illustrating dreams

sequences

VICTOR MOSCOSOSurrealist Sequences

ExploringPattern6

I started thisdrawing by copying

interpreting nature

interpreting nature

describing form with line

shape chara cte r

mapping and coloring

ZELMA LOSEKEWeaving a Drawing

MiningCulture

imiiThese examples represent two very different ways of setive—one image has depth, while the other is flat. Either vcreative artist. This holds true for many other stylistic oppcise postcards became the rage among the impressionear style and radical cropping of great artists likePicasso—deeply impressed by the expressive power of African art—put African masks on the facesThis chapter is about seeing other ways of seeing and acknowledging the value this can havestrange, but it is also familiar. It reminds you of things in your own experience—but with a newtwist. Perhaps it exhibits a verve and daring that inspires you to break out of your own timidity.new permission to depict a subject in a fresh fashion. Maybe you will discover a celebration of theThe practice of stepping outside the world you know can be creatively transforming. It calls forthside your box, offering new ways of seeing and interpreting the world. f ancient America (or

abductions and spin-offs

immersion

inventing

stylizing and symbolizing

graceful linearity

flattening and posterizinq

pattern, movement, detail

simplifying and abstracting

making the familiar strange

decorating

ExploringThemes

choosing a theme

image-rich themes

self-portraits

R. CRUMB

ELIZABETH LAYTON

DAVE CREEKDrawing Wonderland

OMAR RUIZ

ALAN E. COBERA Compassionate Witness

STEVE COSENTINOMaking a Big Statement

STEPHEN HUNECK

MAYA LIN

the power of themes

drawing conclusions

glossary

Index

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Draw with Confidenceand CreativityCreativity occurs in action: It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, youneed to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift outof the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations andsurrendering to the process. Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists

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