Drawing is more than just doodling on a sheet of paper, on a surface, it is a way of expressing emotions, and recording moments in time. Even I have to admit that I always loved to feel the roughness of the paper under the pencil or sometime you even can hear the noise when the pencil hit and scratch the paper or surface.
Why I am writing today about it? Well because ...
Today is National Crayon Day (March 31st)
and yesterday was National Pencil Day (March 30th)
Drawing and sketching is mirroring or mapping out your own and unique mental picture what you have in mind, what matters to you and of the world we see around us.
We can map out visions, ideas, plans, flows, relations, diagrams, and concepts for what and how we see the world or a topic, for what we want to bring into our environment, family, private or business lif.
I am a firm believer -that visualizations, picturing an idea aids help us comprehend large amounts of aspects and perhaps all it data that our brain cannot understand through numbers or words alone.
On the more emotional side, drawing allows the creator to open one’s expressive vents and let emotion become recorded in the marks of your drawing. Often feelings are too complex for us to understand, and art and design - visual ways to communicate - help record and express them.
There is a vivid interaction between your brain hemispheres while drawing. Scientists have found that verbal and rational knowledge is located in the left part of our brains. Perhaps I can phrase it that way - the left side processes information in a linear manner, analyzing and taking / analysing conclusions based on any information it is given. Your left brain is a smart cookie that will help you gain an understanding of the rules and systems you need to create a good drawing. When this information has been instilled in you - most often through lots of practice 😉 - you will want to begin creating from the intuitive side of your brain—the right side.Your right side of the brain senses relationships and patterns. We all know or we do have the feeling that the left side constantly wants to have a word in what you are drawing. So you need to learn to either make the brain agree with what you see - or trick it, or wear it out 😎 blind it 😏.
Drawing takes coordination between your hands, eyes, and brain. If you play any kind of sports, you develop hand-eye coordination and gross motor skills. Drawing works the same way, except for your fine motor skills. The more you practice drawing, the better you get, and the better your hand, eyes, and brain can harmonize together. Your hands become an instrument to help you record the world around you.
And drawing has so much great welcomed side effects. You can use drawing for various mental reasons.
Improving you analytical skills - When drawing, whether consciously or not, we are making decisions about what we are depicting. This improves decision-making skills and helps with problem-solving.
Concentration and Meditation - I am pretty sure that everyone can agree that s/he already was doodling absent-minded while on the phone, or sitting in a café or a bar on a napkin, that we are focused on a drawing.
Understanding and Developing an “eye” for something - Drawing allows us to better understand what surrounds us.And I am as well a firm believer that visualizations, and the drawing process on its own helps us to see and understand new proportions, relationships, and compositions.
Communication - Drawing is nothing else that a language, a visual language of forms, colors, symbols and representations. Whether you are only drawing stick figures or drawing realistic depictions, this visual language exists. As humans, we read a drawing as being something based on the symbols that are given to us and the concept we form through them. This language exists across cultures for all that can see and associate. Just think about how universal signs are.
Mental Attitude and Manner of Expression and finding yourself - a lot of people feel most at ease when drawing. It is often used for therapy and stress relief. Creating something from nothing also makes us feel productive, and that helps us feel good about ourselves. Being present in the moment and focused during a drawing session can be a feeling akin to meditation. We only get down on ourselves during a drawing if we let our ego get in the way and try to compete with others or ourselves.
And finally it is fun - What could be better than being able to fill an empty page and bring our thoughts and musings to life? Drawing is fun, and should be enjoyed.
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