Philosophy of Life Drawing
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- “So take advantage of this human boat. Free yourself from sorrow’s mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”
― Śāntideva
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Drawing people on the tramway is one hell of an ethics class.
I remember the first time I went to life drawing and in the midst of drawing their core I saw their diaphragm rising and falling; breathing. Transferring from photos to life is so surreal and paradoxically humanizing.
Great point Steven. One of the things I live to draw is old wrinkled people and many people don't get it when they see it but there is a beauty in wisdom.
Nah 25 min in and really not vibing with this one, I’ve enjoyed the other long talks tho.
Good morning Steven, I love these deep dives into your philosophies, it starts my day off in a thoughtful way. I find your words lead me, myself to a deeper, different pathway of thoughts and understanding of my own beliefs. Thinking, one of my favorite activities and distractions from the sharpness of the world’s current climate. A transcendental experience. Thanks for sharing and always being brave enough to be authentically you.
steven, these lessons from the deep are coming at an apt time in my development. i appreciate you sharing your wisdoms with us. 🤙🏾 i pray your dog is feeling better.
the "aspirational" part made laugh so much and now every time i ll get it too i ll think the same , daaamn you , you have cursed me
I truly enjoyed and am challenged by these lines of thoughts you introduced here. The appreciation I have for figures and drawing them started years ago, and then I fell more into the ideas you stated here about how in turn, it almost requires you to extend those observations onto ourselves. The challenge comes from living in a chronically ill body, and having worsened symptoms the last 3 1/2 years. Dis-ease in the body creates a friction that extends beyond the confines of self perception to then extend into how the self can function in a society not meant for it. That, is a mess of a headache. Sure you can simplify it to: well the body you struggle in is still keeping you alive, you should be grateful…but that walks into a camp of thinking that disregards much. I can appreciate the triumphs in the feat of living with this daily pain, and weave pretty threads through it to make it sound brave or congratulatory for being here despite these challenges. But when you are talking about chronic illness, you are talking about looking ahead to a life time of struggle, and looking back on the same. Most spaces hold conversations excluding the disabled or chronically ill community, and I by no means am saying this to upset anyone, but the context does change when the lens is so different. It can be difficult to speak about a perspective you do not live, but should the light not at least be shined there in passing? I can imagine people struggling with some of the points you presented (not because the idea of appreciating and loving yourself is wrong at all) because the hurtle of disability and chronic disease is so large in current and past society. And aren’t we all just products of the world then stumbling our way through it to grapple for autonomy and make sense of it all? Just some food for thought. Normally I wouldn’t leave a long reply like this, but funnily enough, this video dropped into RUclips on one of the physically hardest days in recent memory. It brought up enough that I even had to watch this in chunks to slowly think through what you said. So I thought why not throw a different perspective into the mix. Thank you as always for opening a door to explore the fun and interesting aspects of life and art! 🙏❤️
The MOST interesting video
came for the art talks, staying to expand my mind. I'm not spiritual at all and I'm an atheist, but you manage to explain things quite logically withought making them sound religious or spiritual. Really interesting ideas
Can confirm its a life changing experience when you normally only draw attractive looking girls and you go life drawing for the first time to get a 70 year old male model who stares into your souls for an hour
How did you learn to speak so well and think so deeply from seemingly simple observatons?
Love this
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Thank you.
gracias Zapata!
This is one of my more favorite ones, because I actually got to confront this idea from taking life drawing classes myself. I didn't extrapolate it as far though; I've only been to a few. I think it also offers equally cool insight into the things you do like to draw in models. It takes your idea of attractive things off a pedestal, and allows you to view them the same way you'd view the "unattractive" models. This isn't to say that it waters the domain of attractive things down, it actually expands it to places you didn't ever think to look. It unlocks a different way to dissect art, and observe.
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These talks are so incredibly insightful. Youve been challenging me to think in different ways and perspectives about not only art but the strange reality of life itself. I like the raw long form deep dives like this, they definitely have a place on this channel 🤍. Thankyou Mr Zapata 🙏
Thanks for making these