Drawing as a way of seeing: Tips for learning & life

I'm on leave for the next several weeks, so I have queued up a series of "reboot" posts, revisiting evergreen material from the early days of this blog and elsewhere on the interwebs.

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Sketches I made of a moth while trying to identify it (Image: B.G. Merkle)

Over the years, I've written (and taught) a lot about how drawing can enhance the way we experience the world. This week, I'm highlighting a few of those pieces, in hopes that these perspectives can offer you an entry point (or a reconnection opportunity) with drawing as a tool, practice, and learning process.

1. Doodling to reclaim your focus

2. Sketching to realize what you don't know

3. Drawing to share science

4. Making decent digital images out of your sketches

5. Drawing as an inclusive research method for ecologists

6. Resources to get started, reconsider, or level up your drawing skills

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This post was first published on my blog at commnatural.com. © 2024, B.G. Merkle, all rights reserved.