Creativity is the bridge between the inner and outer universes. Today we invite you on a journey across this bridge to find harmony with yourself and others. You will be able to release your feelings by expressing them non-verbally, and through the perception of art, gain an understanding of your deepest selves.

This book is about many things, it is full of ideas that stimulate creativity. The main approach that Natalie Rogers uses is expressive art. Are you ready to become your best self? You don't need anything special for this. Only…

…to draw, sing, write and dance.

Four Universal Healing Potions

There are cultures whose healing potions are singing, dancing, storytelling, and silence. When something is wrong with a person, he is usually asked questions such as:

At what point in your life did you stop singing? When did you stop dancing? When did you stop being fascinated by stories? And when did you start to feel out of place in the sweet space of silence?

They ask this because, according to their beliefs, it was precisely when and where I stopped singing, dancing, being charmed by stories or weighed down by silence that I began to lose my soul.

When was the last time you danced? -

In Africa, tribal peoples understand the world in this way. The indigenous peoples of the Americas and Oceania, including the Australian Aborigines, the Majori, and the Polynesian Islanders, reason in a similar way. In all their rituals and healing practices, they describe health and well-being as the qualities of one who continues to sing, dance, enjoy stories and love the sweet space of silence.

What is a "creative connection"?

The term "creative connection" describes the process by which one art form directly influences another. When we begin to express ourselves through movement and sound, moving in response to our feelings, and then immediately go to work with color and clay, our very artistic creativity changes.

The process of creative connection can stimulate a person to use their innate creativity in order to open windows into their own unconscious. Engaging in creative connection can be one way to become more spontaneous and liberated. Drumming, dancing, drawing, journaling, meditation, improvisation and singing become vehicles that bring a person to creativity.

What does it mean to be expressive?

Stretch your arms up, just to stretch them out. Do it right now. Now do it a second time. Close your eyes and imagine the warmth of the sun and the ocean breeze. You reach out your hands to receive it all. Breathe in the ocean air and the warm sun.

The mental image of the warm sun and fresh air changes your movement and experience in general. -

Do you feel the difference between the way you stretched your arms up the first and second time? Where did you feel it? In the chest? In heart? In your soul?

Suppose I just get up from my chair and go pour myself a glass of water. But everything will change if I imagine myself as a crouching lion. My movement will acquire an expression of excitement.

To use art expressively means to enter your inner world in order to discover your experiences there, and then express them through art forms, movement, sound, writing or dramatic act. Expressive arts allow you to discover intuitive, mythological and spiritual aspects of yourself.

visual arts

The visual arts allow us to express ourselves radically, poignantly, colorfully and thus gain insight into who we are. We can release our feelings by expressing them non-verbally, and through the perception of art, gain an understanding of our deepest selves.

Drawing makes it possible for images to appear when words have not yet taken shape.

Again and again we can look at our work, reflect on it, let it speak to us.

The method of expressive self-expression is well illustrated by the example of the main character of the film “Love in words and pictures”. -

Try these drawing methods:

• For ten to twenty minutes a day, sketch your experiences and feelings through rapid artistic expression. As you create these drawings, you may find that your moods change quickly or that your mood changes.
• Try to use your non-dominant hand from time to time. Your non-dominant hand is less controlled, allowing you to draw more spontaneously.
• Draw the dreams you had the day before, or the feelings they caused.

According to Frances Fuchs, who specializes in art and hypnotherapy, "art has the ability to be both a midwife and a child of our inner selves."

big doodle

Have a colored marker in each hand. Close your eyes. As you hum the song, start moving your hands in the air. First, doodle in the air, letting your hands dance to your tunes. Open your eyes for a moment to see a sheet of paper. Using both hands at the same time, start scribbling on paper.

Experiment first with your eyes closed and then with your eyes open. Keep humming your tune. Let what will happen happen. Don't worry about what exactly your doodles look like. Continuing, move on to the next sheet to draw even more doodles.

You can draw without markers, just with your hands, as the artist Heather Hansen does. -

The mystery of the creative process

Images come from the unconscious to help us understand our inner world. We can use creativity as a kind of bridge between our inner and outer realities.

Try free writing after a walk in the woods. Get creative when you feel a deep sense of love. Art does not have to be professional to please itself and others. Instead of just sitting in a chair listening to the music you like, try dancing.

Everyone has their own myth in life. We are involved in the process of writing our own life stories. And the expressive arts serve as a powerful means of translating them into reality. Art and writing, movement and dance, chant and song - all this helps us discover our essence and integrity.

"Creative Connection" is a book for those who are ready to radically change their lives through creativity.

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It seems to many that drawing a ballerina with a pencil is almost impossible if there is no appropriate education. In fact, it is not at all necessary to go to art school for years and stand at the easel every day to create such a cute and beautiful picture of a dancing girl in pointe shoes. Legs, a tutu, a waist, a face with the smallest details can be transferred to paper if you follow one of the lessons below for beginners. If you do everything step by step, follow the recommendations and the proposed video step by step, then drawing will be a very interesting and exciting activity.

Step-by-step instructions for drawing a ballerina with a pencil

There are several lessons for beginners that allow you to create a beautiful and sophisticated drawing of a ballerina after a couple of workouts. A dancer girl in a tutu will look sophisticated and elegant. The main thing is to repeat the steps suggested in the selected instructions.

Instructions for creating a drawing of a ballerina from the movie "Black Swan"

After the release of the film "Black Swan", many girls literally fell in love with the main character and began to dream of becoming a dancer. It is not surprising that they began to draw a famous ballerina in their albums. If you use the master class with a photo below, you can draw an exquisite ballerina from a sensational film.

1. First, the form of a dancing girl with fragile legs and a wasp waist is created. It is necessary to draw a circle - this will be the head. From it is the line of the neck. Another circle is added to this strip from below. This will be the chest. Then the waist line is connected to the lower part of the body. Two lines are added. These are the future legs of a ballerina.
2. Next, the contours of the legs and shoulders are drawn, as in the photo below.
3. It is necessary to clearly draw all the elements of the face. The tip of the nose, eye slits, eyelashes and other fragments are carefully outlined. The neck is outlined, which is gracefully stretched back. The girl's hair is added.
4. It is necessary to draw outstretched arms. Eyes are drawn more clearly. A line of cheekbones and chin is made.
5. The hands should be taken out. Next, a drawing of the tutu and the upper part of the dancer's dress is created.
6. The drawing needs to be detailed. This is the final stage of work on the drawing of the ballerina from the movie "Black Swan". You should draw the contours of the chest, complete the pack. In addition, you need to work on the legs and add pointe shoes.
7. All unnecessary contours are erased with an eraser.
8. If desired, the finished drawing is painted with colored pencils. You can add details to the image.
   

Instructions for creating a dancing ballerina

Drawing a ballerina on your own with a pencil is quite simple if you gradually draw all the lines and follow the basic steps of this lesson.

1. Observing the proportions, it is necessary to make a sketch of the pack (an inclined oval). Then two lines are made - these are the girl's future legs. A circle and lines outlining the hands are drawn.
2. Now it is necessary to draw contours to the resulting base with a pencil, allowing you to get the full figure of the dancer. For this, the contours of the waist, shoulders, approximate outlines of the legs are drawn. Do not forget that the ballerina must be fragile and graceful.
3. The shapes of the legs and arms are completely drawn. Since a dancing girl is depicted here, the contours of the socks and toes should be carefully outlined.
4. Next, you need to draw the hands, palms and fingers of the ballerina. All extra lines created at the beginning of the drawing are erased with an eraser.
5. The face of a ballerina is displayed. The nose, eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows and other fragments are drawn in detail. But if you do not plan to make the drawing too large, you can get by with sketches.
6. Now you need to "revive" the girl's ballet costume. Soft shadows are created on the pack and other elements of the picture. This drawing step is based on the shading of image elements. To make the skirt airy, light, transparent, you need to leave most of it white. It remains only to colorize the image.
   

Instructions for drawing a ballerina in motion

Step by step drawing a ballerina in motion with a pencil is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. The video below will help you get started.

1. You have to start with the face. A circle is drawn, the direction is divided by straight lines. You can not draw the eyes much, as the image will not be too large. Sketches are made for the eyebrows and nose.
   
2. A "skeleton" is drawn: hands and silhouettes of hands.
   
   
3. The outlines of the chest are created. Next, the drawing moves on to the dancer's tutu and corset.
   
4. We need to draw the legs. All unnecessary contours are erased.
   
5. Details are created: characteristic lines in the throat and collarbones, on the skirt, pointe shoes.
   
6. Fingers on the hands can not be drawn. Bracelets are made upon request. The chest is emphasized with strokes.
   
7. It remains only to color the resulting image of a ballerina in motion.
   

Video for beginners: how to draw a ballerina in stages

Instruction

Dance is life, movement, dynamics. You can draw in a beautiful pose, accurately and subtly convey every detail of her fragile figure and costume, but the drawing will end up looking lifeless and static. First, to capture the movement in the picture, you need to choose a good body position. For example, you can depict jumping up while dancing over the stage. Pay attention to the position of the arms, legs, head, to which muscles are tense at the time of the jump.

First sketch out the shape. Keep proportions in mind if you want the drawing to look realistic. However, to convey the dynamics of the dance, proportions can be neglected. Excessively elongated lines, unusual curves can sometimes even emphasize movement.

The dancer's costume is very important for conveying movement. If you are drawing a dancing girl, then her dress or some kind of ribbon should flutter in the air. The same, by the way, applies to long hair. If you are drawing a dancer, whose costume is not as lush and airy as, and whose hair is not as long, then in this case, pay special attention to tense muscles - exactly in those places where they should contract for a given body position.

A slightly blurry, blurry background is another good technique for depicting fast movement. Among other things, he focuses the viewer's gaze on the dancer.

Try playing with color. Sometimes color spots alone are enough to depict a passionate and. By the way, you can also stylize the drawing somewhat, make it more unusual by adding to the dancer or dancer natural elements that are constantly in motion. For example, draw a girl dancing among flashes of fire or with sea waves instead of a dress.

Everyone loves music, and the best activity for it is dancing. In this article we want to tell you and show you some step by step examples that will demonstrate how to draw dancing people. In some paragraphs we will consider a couple of a man and a girl, and in others the girls will dance alone.

couple in dance

The first paragraph of this article will be devoted to how to draw people dancing together. The guy will hold the girl's hand while she spins in front of him. This drawing is made in anime style, but if you don't like it, then you can simply redraw the guy's head in any other style, other elements are depicted in the same way.

We will start by drawing a guy. You need to place it on the left side of the sheet, since the girl will be on the opposite side. At this stage, we have to work on the head and half of the torso.

In the next step, we must paint on the girl, she should turn out to be a little lower in height.

We pick up a black pen or a thin marker and circle all the lines. Erase the extra pencil strokes with an eraser.

With the same black felt-tip pen or pen, paint over the man's suit and the woman's belt. On this drawing can be considered complete.

dancing girl

This paragraph will be much easier than the previous one, because this time we will learn how to draw a dancing girl. This time she will be without a partner, and the drawing technique is a bit simplified, so the example is perfect for beginners or children.

Let's start by drawing the head. It will have an oval shape, and the hairstyle is collected in two small buns. Due to the fact that the face is slightly turned, only one ear of our dancing girl will be visible.

Let's move on to the body. First, we will depict two hands spread apart in different directions, and then we will work on the topic. Pay attention to the fingers, they are made in a simplified technique, but despite this, the drawing does not become less beautiful.

Our girl will be dressed in a fluffy skirt, from under which two legs will stick out. One she keeps the balance, and the other will be lifted up.

The drawing is ready, but it is made in black and white, since we only depicted the outlines. If you wish, you can use colored pencils and color it. In addition, we recommend that you watch the video tutorial with this example, which demonstrates the live drawing process in detail.

A simple example of a dancing couple

We have already dealt with the example of dancing partners, but it was very complicated. This time we want to show you how to draw a dancing couple using a simple drawing technique. To do this, you do not need any special artistic skills. Just follow the instructions below and you will end up with a beautiful drawing of dancing people.

We put the basis of our drawing on top and depict two heads and three hands interacting with each other.

Draw a woman's dress. Do not forget that you should draw not just a rectangle, but a beautiful figure with curves of the chest and waist.

Finish the edges of the dress and paint on the legs.

Our dancing woman is ready and now we need to move on to work on her partner. To do this, draw the torso and legs of a man.

At the final stage, we must apply chiaroscuro as in the photo below. It should be noted that if you are going to depict the drawing in color, then the shadows should be painted over with a darker color in place. For example, a man's suit is all blue, but in places of shadow it should be dark blue. Then the picture will turn out very beautiful!

dancing girl

At the end of our article, we will look at how to draw a dancing girl in a red dress. This is a fairly simple way to draw and you can get a finished drawing in just three simple steps.

We are working on the top. One hand will be raised up and the other down. Also, depict the head and top of the dress.

Now we need to work on the bottom. When moving, people's clothes are not static, that's what we need to reflect on paper. This can be done thanks to the wavy lines as in the picture. It is not necessary to try to draw the lines exactly as in the photo. Clothing constantly takes on various forms when moving, so it’s not scary if some line turns out to be larger, and some, on the contrary, is smaller.

We take colored felt-tip pens and paint as in the photo. You probably already noticed that our girl does not have a face and a finger. We decided to leave the freedom for creativity to novice artists, so that you yourself come up with what kind of face to draw and in what position the fingers will be.

If you want to take a closer look at the drawing process, then you can watch the video tutorial with this example.

The lesson "How to draw a ballerina" is designed for those who already know how to draw well, since drawing a person is not at all easy. Drawing a picture of a dancing ballerina is especially difficult, because the drawing needs to convey the grace and grace of a ballet dance. But, if you want to try to draw a ballerina, try to do it step by step with me. Drawing in stages with a simple pencil, you may well get a beautiful drawing of a ballerina.

1. The initial steps of drawing a ballerina

The main thing is to strictly observe the proportions and location of the contour primary lines, then the drawing will be more accurate. First, draw a ballerina's skirt (tutu) in the form of an inclined oval, only draw the left edge sharp. Next draw two lines for the ballerina's legs, two arms and a circle for the head. Now it will be easier for you draw a ballerina.

2. The general form of a dancing ballerina

In the next steps, you only need to add lines to the main contour with a pencil, drawing out the figure of the dancing ballerina completely. Draw first the line of the shoulders, then the line of the waist and the approximate shape of the legs. The ballerina should be slim, so try to draw her figure graceful and tall so that the ballerina does not turn out to be too full.

3. Completely draw the legs and arms of the ballerina

Draw the full shape of the legs and arms of the ballerina. In the dance, she stands on her toes, so drawing them is actually not difficult, especially since she has pointe shoes on her feet. The ballerina's legs should be slender, don't make them too full.

4. Remove extra contour lines from the drawing

This stage of the ballerina's drawing can already be said to be final. In any case, after you remove the extra contour lines with an eraser and draw the palms and fingers, the ballerina will already be "dancing". Remains only for drawing of a ballerina add some details and draw the girl's face in detail.

5. How to draw a ballerina's face

Drawing a dress for a ballerina is not difficult, but drawing a face is quite difficult, especially without experience. If you draw a picture on the whole sheet, then you need to try to draw a face in great detail. If the picture is small, then it is quite possible to do with just a few general strokes of the mouth, nose and eyebrows and then slightly shade the face. The ballerina's hair is always tidied up, so a small contour around the head is enough. Now the ballerina in the picture has almost come to life, and all that remains is to decorate her dress, or rather the ballerina's costume and add shadows in the ballerina's picture with a soft simple pencil.

6. The final stage of the ballerina drawing

Make the ballerina's tutu transparent, for this you need to leave as much white as possible. Draw the details of the corset and shade the entire drawing. Look again carefully, maybe you missed some little things, for example, strings on pointe shoes. Do not forget that any drawing of a person always looks more alive against the background of his surroundings.

7. Draw a ballerina on a tablet

Since the ballerina is dancing on the stage, it is desirable to draw the floor, even with the environment in perspective, the scenery. Just do not overload the drawing with additional elements so that they do not distract attention from the main character of your picture - a dancing ballerina.

If you need to draw a close-up of a ballerina's face, then this tutorial will help you do it right. Human eyes attract the most attention, and therefore they must be drawn very accurately. In this lesson we will learn how to draw a person's eyes with a pencil in stages.

Try to first draw a conventional person, study his proportions, and then draw a ballerina. First of all, a few tips. In the fine arts, the most important thing is not the accuracy of the proportions and lines of the drawing, but the image of the main, the most important. For a person - his mood, character, expression of the eyes, some other features.

Learning to draw a portrait of a person, even with a simple pencil, requires not only time for learning, but also talent. The complexity of drawing a portrait of a person lies in the ability to convey the emotional state of a person, his facial expressions, the depth of his gaze, etc. But, it’s quite possible to learn a simple technique for drawing a person’s face on your own, especially if you draw a person’s face in stages. If you will be draw a ballerina"close-up", then this lesson will help you draw the face of a ballerina correctly.

The drawing of the Snow Maiden, as well as the drawing of a ballerina, is made on a graphics tablet in stages. You can use these lessons to draw with a normal pencil.

Everyone represents an angel in their own way. Someone sees him as a child with wings, someone represents him as a girl.