How to deal with the phenomenon of art students going out to sketch during intensive training?

Sketching is an essential means in artistic creation. Nature itself is rich and colorful, and sketching is one of the main training methods for learning painting, and it is also an extremely important link in the painting creation process. Through sketching, you can obtain first-hand creative materials, which are real and natural. In sketching, you can combine the three links of studying life, absorbing tradition, and brewing creation. A series of activities between the subject and the object, such as walking into nature, experiencing life, expressing emotions, etc., can all be realized in sketching. Only by accumulating rich experience in sketching, truly depicting one's own emotions and thoughts, and expressing one's understanding, feelings and understanding of nature can one improve his artistic accomplishment and aesthetic ability. People often say that art is a portrait of the soul, and only sincerity can touch people's hearts. Therefore, extracurricular sketching is of great significance.

1. Disadvantages of art teaching

In art teaching, there is a problem of underestimating extracurricular sketching. Students are highly dependent and have poor hands-on ability.

In the current art teaching, life drawing class is a required course in art teaching.

However, life drawing classes do not receive the attention of administrative leaders. There are very few life drawing classes. The so-called life drawing classes are also a mere formality and almost become a trip. The teacher takes the students out to write

Students, most students bring their cameras and are not willing to sketch the scenery directly. They go out to play, take some photos and then come back. Students generally despise sketching classes, and many students have neither correct nor serious learning attitudes. , There is no hard-working spirit of learning.

When creating, students start working behind closed doors in front of the photos, patching things together, and the paintings are messy. They have no theme, are not touching, have no fun, and cannot arouse the passion for painting. In addition, painting The basic skills are poor, and the works are even more boring and empty, revealing the shortcomings of formulaic, conceptual and rigid.

2. The importance of extracurricular sketching

1. Extracurricular sketching is an important way to improve the level of painting creation

(1) Extracurricular sketching cultivates our understanding of life The power of observation

The French art master Rodin said in the article "Testament": "The so-called masters are people who use their own eyes to see things that others have seen, and to see things that are commonplace to others. Able to discover beauty. ”

In extracurricular sketching, students must be good at cultivating the sensitivity to discover the beauty of nature, and see through our eyes the treasures of beauty lurking in nature. Discover it and express the beauty in nature with your hands. Facing the natural characters and scenery in extracurricular sketching, the required purpose is not just to simply reproduce nature, but to re-understand and discover the observed scenery or objects. Observe the objects you want to depict carefully and be good at discovering touching details from real life. On the one hand, it improves the ability to depict details in sketching and makes the works more in-depth and complete. On the other hand, it cultivates our ability to discover the beauty in life. The colors, light and shade, composition and other details in nature will enrich our observation of nature day by day. Over time, they will become the direct source and nutrition for artistic creation. Gu Kaizhi, the famous ancient Chinese painter, once said that "imagination brings wonderful results", which vividly illustrates the role of art in absorbing nutrients from life. Walk more, see more, think more, spend your whole life studying, enrich your knowledge, and improve your personal taste, so that you can enter the best realm of creation.

(2) Extracurricular sketching is an effective way to cultivate students' creative passion, improve painting skills and creative level.

Extracurricular sketching is the most important training subject in art teaching. In the process of extracurricular sketching, we can organically combine the three links of studying life, understanding the laws of art, and inspiring creation. In addition to cultivating students' observation of life, it can also equip students with higher painting skills and the ability to control and process pictures.

In the practice of art education and teaching, we often encounter such problems. Many students have something they want to express in their hearts, but due to lack of sufficient artistic accomplishment and techniques, they cannot draw what they want to express. come out. A large part of the reason here is that there is not enough practice in painting techniques during the learning stages of various life drawing classes. On the contrary, many students who can quickly master certain painting skills and picture processing abilities in the extracurricular life drawing learning stage become more comfortable in the artistic creation stage and can more easily put their ideas into the picture. This is why the training in life drawing class is They provide a solid technical foundation in painting. The art major is different from other majors. General rules can be learned from books and classes, but specific picture manipulation skills can only be obtained through personal understanding and a large number of sketching exercises.

(3) Only by going deep into nature can students’ strong desire and passion for artistic creation be stimulated.

Nature is colorful, colorful and charming, making it We get the most direct and richest color experience and the most natural and authentic beauty. This kind of feeling and passion is difficult to obtain simply by staying in the studio. It is an aesthetic experience with sincere personal emotions and a strong flavor of local life. At the same time, the biggest difference between extracurricular sketching and indoor sketching is that going out for sketching can give the artist a fresh and exciting feeling, and he can be full of passion when painting.

In the process of extracurricular sketching, we have the opportunity to see more natural scenery,

immerse ourselves in the embrace of nature. For those of us living in the city, when facing the natural beauty, we will strongly feel that the connection between art and life is so close, the choices of artistic creation will be so rich, and the enthusiasm for artistic creation will be so high!

What we often say about "speaking out of feelings" illustrates the huge role that subjective feelings play in artistic expression. Observe the inner beauty of scenery carefully, feel the beautiful attributes of all things in nature from deep inside, often go to nature to sketch, enrich your inner world, and improve your cognitive and perceptive abilities.

2. The relationship between sketching and creation

As for the relationship between "sketching and creation", some people have such misunderstandings that sketching is just a way to train basic skills or collect materials. , and ignore the important aspect of "sketching is also creation". In fact, in Western painting, sketching of objects is creation. Sometimes when it comes to creation, people tend to recognize those works that are meticulously enlarged and refined using photos or sketches, but ignore it. Works created by sketching. In extracurricular sketching, we must not only have a keen sense of objective phenomena and natural scenery, but also transform our unique personal feelings into pictures. The artist's personal painting style is not created out of thin air or subjective creation. It is accumulated bit by bit in a long-term and large number of paintings. Among them, extracurricular sketching makes the combination of technology and thought become the spirit of creation. and ideas provide more possibilities. With an open attitude and expanded thinking, we should give full play to the characteristics of the sketching method to promote the formation of individuality and stylization of the sketching works. Therefore, extracurricular sketching has become an important way for painters to express their personality and emotions.

Sketching is a creative expression of reality, and its images contain rich imagination and creativity, and have beautiful visual effects. Sketching is not the same as creation, but the concentrated expression of some of the most common laws and rules required for creation is the standardization of artistic language extracted from the long-term artistic practice of artists of all ages. At the same time, sketching and creation are two progressive processes, and they are closely connected. Scenery sketching and scenery creation are also the promotion of "learning from nature".

3. Inherit the spirit of Chinese painting masters who attach great importance to deep nature sketching

Deep nature sketching may seem to be an easy task on the surface, but in real life it is difficult. activities that risk one's life. We can think of Yi Yuanji, a painter from the Song Dynasty, who risked his life to live and inspect in the mountains and forests in order to paint living apes. This kind of professionalism is worth learning from. Contemporary painters such as Li Keran, Huang Zhou, and Liu Wenxi all rely on sketching. Their love for life, persistence and diligence in art are examples worthy of our learning.

3. Correct your attitude towards extracurricular sketching and cultivate good extracurricular sketching habits

Nature has given us such beautiful scenery, which is worth reading with our lives, and

To refine the artistic conception and theme in sketching, we only have to correct our attitude towards extracurricular sketching and cultivate good extracurricular sketching habits. Looking back at history, many art masters have laid the cornerstone of their success with their sketching works, because artists know that "sketching" is a shortcut to the road to art - the painter goes to nature to "learn from nature" and cultivate the painter's good vision. Experience and elegant aesthetic ability, while training the painter's ability to experience nature, observe nature, summarize nature and express nature. Cultivate observation and sensitivity to natural scenery and environment. Therefore, the importance of extracurricular sketching is clarified, which will help us further organically combine sketching classes with artistic creation. Especially in today's social environment, we should correctly understand and grasp this relationship.

As a painter, you must often sketch nature, have a cordial dialogue with nature, constantly improve your ability to control the picture, and make the picture perfect. Cultivate good extracurricular sketching habits: on the one hand, cultivate the observation ability of sketching, on the other hand, accumulate experience, concepts and artistic accomplishment of sketching. When sketching in the face of nature, we should pay attention to the experience and expression of nature, and the pursuit of depth of expression in simple and refined artistic language. The organic combination of subject and object is not only the understanding and summary of painting, but also the most accurate definition of extracurricular sketching. Going deep into life and nature and correcting the attitude towards extracurricular sketching is a bridge between artists and life. It enables artists to experience life more directly and deeply and explore the deep connotation of life. It is also a basic way to realize the transformation of painting.