Why does an adult learn to draw? Maybe this is an unfulfilled childhood dream, or you are a creative person and your professional skill, for example, literature, has become narrow for the embodiment of the images you have invented? Or do you have artistically gifted children, and to support them, you try to understand how this drawing skill looks from the inside? The reasons may vary.
At first glance, learning to draw for adults seems to be a difficult and practically impossible task. As we get older, we certainly gain a lot, but we also lose a lot. Freshness of perception, spontaneity leaves us. The accumulated life experience dulls the assimilation of the new, obscures it with stereotypes. Learning ability also declines with age - it takes longer to develop a particular motor skill. The body ceases to be plastic, it is also in captivity of motor stereotypes.
But on the other hand, adults are more purposeful, more capable of performing consistent actions in calligraphy to achieve their goal. Experience tells you that over a long life you have already had to master many different operations - we will cope with this one too. Adults, solving the problem, are more capable of monotonous work, patient, persistent. Passing the task through the brain trained by life, they, analyzing the individual elements of the movements and comparing them with the sample, eventually cope with the task.
Drawing for adultsis taught at the Children's Art School, normally based on an understanding of all these mental mechanisms. At the first stage, of course, selection takes place, the distribution of the group according to drawing skills (1. the first year of study and 2. a group for those who have drawing skills or continue classes for the next year). Learning to draw for adults does not include a number of points inherent in teaching children. In the first stages, learning progresses faster when the learning of "boring" skills that require perseverance is in progress. Let's not forget that a purposeful adult spends all his free time doing this, because this is his free choice.
Obviously, people are gifted to different degrees, and everyone has their own talent. Therefore, the “adult students” of our art school approach the end of the term of study with varying degrees of preparedness, and for some this training can become a door to a new world, to new horizons. Having felt a gift in yourself, and having mastered the necessary technique, you can make yourself a career in this field. Then you have the hard work of an artist ahead of you, personal exhibitions, good and evil critics, and much more.
But even if your talent is in another, and you are just fulfilling your childhood dream to tolerately transfer the faces of friends to paper, or you decide to make an unexpected gift to your loved ones. Your dream has come true - but does that mean that learning to draw is over? No. You feel like being immersed in the world of fine art has transformed you. Your erudition, your new skills and knowledge push you to further improve. The world of art is inexhaustible, and part of it is now in you.
