Philosophy of Life Drawing
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 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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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
Thats basically what made me realize, "oh ok... i get it... so we try to make them more attractive to my eye". And that doesn't just mean make them more handsome of gorgeous, you can appreciate the wrinkling in their faces .etc
Drawing people on the tramway is one hell of an ethics class.
It's the new trolley problem
How did you learn to speak so well and think so deeply from seemingly simple observatons?
It feels like I am uplifted to a better sense of self listening to this series. Then have no way of generating similarly acting thoughts from my own obsrvations.
Love your stuff steven
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.
I hope that came out right. Thanks for the talk, Steven.
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.
Thank you.
41:30 "If you have been drawing the world for a long time...then you probably already have had a deep insight into the fact that you make things lovely."
This is a fantastic insight, which as far as I see it summarises one of the greatest values of art as a practice: to find beauty in seemingly trivial, mundane everyday things. It is an inherently optimistic act in a world that is plagued with pessimism.
One of the most fantastic images I have come across this year is a painting of a kitchen sink and counter by Michal Sawtyruk. If you name the objects in the scene, it would be one of the most boring things you could possibly describe on paper: some dishes, an induction cooker, a window without a view, etc. And yet the colours and life expressed in the painting made it into a wonderful environment.
Love these videos ❤
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.
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.
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
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
26:21 "You need to generate appreciation from within, and project that into the raw source material of visual perception and the world." Taking notes... whilst making a sketch of you in the meantime.
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 🙏
I think the point about extending this sense of beauty in all not only gives rise to a sense of community with the world and compassion to other but i appreciate you bridging that the self as whole. thanks for sharing these all
Love me a good scope of fresh, goopy ideas. Mulled over to a crispy perfection. Thank you for once again giving my ears food while I draw.
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.
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 CZcams 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! 🙏❤️
Thanks for sharing your view and difficulties. Any discussion of appreciating your body of course intersects with those in difficult bodily positions, and I have people very close to me who struggle with this, but never having lived through it myself it didn't come up naturally in this discussion. There are, however, many great meditation and insight teachers who themselves have (or had) chronic disease who I think you could investigate. I can personally recommend Rob Burbea, who continued to teach a joyful and appreciative course of insight (with lots of attention on the body) for several years while knowing he would soon die from cancer. You can find many of his talks and recorded retreats here: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/
As I have been grinding wrong (no formal art education) for so long, this videos are important reminders for me to look back whenever I have an art revelation revealed to me.
Love this
gracias Zapata!
Steven you re killing it lately, these videos will last the test of time
Thanks for making these
beautiful. thank you for bringing me on this train of thought
The MOST interesting video
LOVE these types of videos
Haven't listened to the video - but this subject is exactly one of the things I need, I've been drawing for 3½ years and I've drawn from life less than a handful of times, I actually have a question - how would you approach it if you started doing it by yourself? The immediate feeling I get it that I would have somewhat of a barrier with the lack of freedom that there is compared to an almost completely intuitive, imaginative drawing - but I do believe after letting the initial thoughts settle and getting through 3 or 4 of them I'll find my joy within them, I really just want to get to dirty practical of how do I approach it? Do I hang up on the measurements for 1½ hours? Do I just get them out and figure it for myself? Do I just try a couple of times and assess where I would like to improve? It seems like there's some different goal when you draw from life, like a sort of ying yang of your idea of the beauty within the object and the actual qualities, proportions and textures (and so on) of the object, at least I would think so... Important to note that I am finding an interest in this because I am oriented to a career in art - excuse the length of the message, thank you so much for everything.
Edit: Now listened to the video, question still relevant though
Just got into it a few days ago and I felt the same way before. It was an exhilarating time learning about breaking everything down into shapes. There is a proko video that is immensely valuable in teaching how to view subjects as a collection of shapes. Especially the part about manipulating a shape like a cylinder to give it an inflated bottom, and to think of shapes as something you can carve, squash, stretch, bend. Really brings the imagination back into drawing something that already exists.
I hope you have as much fun as I did!
I think you'll find the video interesting on the ying yang concept and frustratingly light on techniques! As implied in the video, I don't think you should go it alone if at all possible. Either get to a class or create a life drawing group with friends (even 1), the "how the heck do I draw?" question will be handled many many times over within a group. Soon the problem will be FORGETTING everyone's ideas about how you should draw!
@@Multi-Waves_Sketchbook thanks!!
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high vizier worthy
Hey Steven! When we'll get a sale for your course? 🧐
Probably November!
pls make another channel for ur podcasts as it will be more organised and easy to go through in order
There's playlists on this channel that organize the videos by type. these are in "The Deep End" and "Talking Art"
I thought you are a game streamer...very confusing these days, Mr. Zapata.
He is a new age Renaissance man. He upholds the most virtuous philosophies such as drawing, painting, anatomy, gaming, mediation, esoteric practices, doggo dad, husband, friend and leaving planet earth a better place for others.
I contain multitudes.
Nah 25 min in and really not vibing with this one, I’ve enjoyed the other long talks tho.
Where'd you get the mask in the background.
A gift from my wife! She found it at a swap meet.
@@StevenZapataArt looks so nice. I can't tell what country it originates from. Feel like it could be Mayan, Aztec, or even Polynesian.
@2Ferst thank you! That makes so much sense.