Fatma Loves to Draw!
A drawer in the virtual world, a graphic designer in "real life." In other words, being in the wrong place at the wrong time all the time.
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“Control over consciousness is not simply a cognitive skill. At least as much as intelligence, it requires the commitment of emotions and will. It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians who must keep practicing what they know in theory. And this is never easy. Progress is relatively fast in fields that apply knowledge to the material world, such as physics or genetics. But it is painfully slow when knowledge is to be applied to modify our own habits and desires.”
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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I’m working on the book and i finally fall in love with a spread. I love when that happens. :)
For the first time in my life I have managed to read something that made me sick to a point where I don’t want to continue reading..! I’m stopping at Part Eight: Psychopathic Women Killers. If anyone’s interested in borrowing the book let me know. (Taken with instagram)
Guess what glorious things arrived today?? My Scanner Play book. Mayed’s book. Stationary cards from society6. And well, jewelry hanger!!
I made my first book on Blurb. Nothing fancy, just testing the process and how the end product would look like..! It’s expected to arrive on April 25th. I can’t wait.
Also, I didn’t design it properly, I just threw in some scans on Bookify and played around. I’ll plan out a real one in the future.
I’m seeing some great opportunities in the horizon. Yum!
Feeling The Mark
‘Feeling the mark ’ being made on the paper has to be consciously realized and learnt. It is a feeling that is made visible by focusing into and squeezing out of the pencil point/medium, a lighter, darker, thinner, thicker, twisted mark which is made in response to what is being seen at that precise moment.
We must learn to see as we feel as we discover as we draw, as a simultaneous act. Through the continuous practice of drawing and drawing and drawing, the intrinsic skills of looking, feeling, discovering and responding in marks can be made into one synergised action. A metaphorical equivalent for this simultaneous act in football might be how a professional footballer is able to pass the ball 60 metres to the feet of a team-mate, and precisely synchronise the distance, weight and speed of the pass all in one action of his leg.
Or in music— for example a saxophone player, it might be the simultaneous combining, in a synchronised moment, of the amount of air they control and blow into the mouth piece, with the pressing of the keys, and releasing a felt a note of perfect intent.
“REPEAT YOURSELF, IF YOU LIKE IT, DO IT AGAIN, IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DO IT AGAIN.” — Bruce Mau.
Make your drawing instrument as extension of your brain, heart, eyes, arms and hand.
I decided to take this down and start reading it. It’s been months since I’ve read anything let alone my favorite genre! I miss the thrill! :)
I got my copy of the Tiny Book of Tiny Stories! This might be my luckiest day!! <3
And it’s so tiny and so precious! :D
