Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

A lakeside
Background
landscape
showing three
sections; the
background,
Middle ground
middle ground
and the
foreground Foreground
Accordingly, learners should be encouraged to draw a
number of sketches with considerable emphasis laid on
various outdoor scenes in order to improve their skills of
drawing landscapes.
Besides, the process of drawing landscapes—takes several
days or hours to complete. Consequently, it is important to
learn how to sketch quickly and catch the right moments;
by representing parts which are worth the time. Identify
a scenery, which will insinuate viewers. “People tend to
prefer Savannah-like environments—open areas, scattered
trees, water and uniform grassiness—to other natural
environments.” (Lidwell et al. 2010, 212)
To sum up, Sullivan (2004, 7) asserts, “Landscape drawing
is not the reproduction of nature. It is an expression of
the emotions, sensations and feelings that the landscape
impresses on the artist.” Thus, we draw landscapes to
“understand” them and to visualise them in a new way ...” As
opposed to taking photographs.
Drawing from imagination
In the words of Dodson (2006, 6), “drawing with imagination
takes a broad look at ... fantasy images. It can mean
distorting, abstracting or simply doodling. And drawing
from memory—involves making creative choices about the
things you choose to draw.” That is to say, by drawing from
memory the artist recalls some real images captured by the
brain long-ago, some of them can be included in the sketch.
Other than that, drawing from imagination has got a bearing
on untrue or invention stories, which may be fictitious.
The Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, Regulations
and Syllabuses, 2009 – 2012 (Uganda National Examinations
Board, 2008, 223) is full of excellent expectations: It provides
educative awareness and expectations to learners who take
on tasks concerning imaginative composition that they are
supposed “to discover and effectively portray visually, in
pictorial form the true subject of the set topic.” Also, learners
are expected to show they're understanding and “potentials
of intelligent use of colour as an element of art.”
Certainly, every one of us has for once drawn from
imagination. In Jenkins (1980, 46) Imaginary Worlds, “... the
child is encouraged to draw or paint the people, animals
or plant life of an imaginary land ... initiated by verbal
discussions ..., or a guided visualisation.”
That is to say, having drawn from imagination—once upon
a time, learners should as well be encouraged to continue
making artworks of drawing and painting in a similar
manner. Drawings made from imagination rather than
observation can also be accomplished in the same way—
from a feeling of certainty, perception and motivation about
real life situations or from existing inspirational life styles
with in our own surroundings. For example cartoons.
In a simultaneous way, drawing from imagination
can equally be done in abstract (art) approaches and
procedures. It is from such challenges that learners will
attain skills of testing their drawing abilities. Jenkins
(1980, 46) concurs with a written matter of opinion. What
If/Just Suppose Questions; “... what if insects were larger
than people? Or cows were the size of cats? Or the sun
shone all night? Or children were giants and parents were
midgets?” Evidently then, learners will not be cheated of the
opportunity to think creatively.
In agreement with Ashwin (1982, 120) “imaginative drawing
is concerned with making some kind of record from
a situation,” such can be a cultural show, “events” you
attended recently or “seen and experienced in the past.”
We can conclude from this that drawing from imagination
does not only refer to finding new options of representing
fantasy artworks and designs. Since, “to imagine” in a literal
manner “means to create a mental image.” (Ashwin 1982, 120)
In essence, creative artists especially learners must be
encouraged to compose and draw wonderful mental
pictures which may be adequately needed for other artistic
works like paintings, cartoons, illustrations and sculpture.
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