> Does anyone feel they work with/from images?
>  What do you feel you are working from when you draw?

Since it's your first post, I'll reply with my first post. I think there's any number of different approaches to drawing, I definitely tend towards 'unedited' observation, but ultimately I'm always drawing what I see, whether it's the image forming on the paper or the subject.

> Is it memories, new thoughts, hypothetical thoughts, dreams, are you applying thoughts to something like an object or place and building from there?

No idea. 

> How concious are you of how the image is forming and how deliberate are you if you are someone who has been drawing for a long time?

Much less so, I've found over the years that the drawings I carefully construct are no better or worse (or very different really) from drawings I 'just do.' So I've stopped arguing with the paper and let what comes out, come out. 

> Do experienced drawers find you can almost repeat a drawing? or feel that your pace is quickened and less tense?

Not particularly. When it gets down to it, all my drawings are pretty much the same (I recently found a box full of them, about 10 years old, and I could have done them yesterday), so in a sense I guess yes I can repeat a drawing. But the repetition isn't exactly obvious, look at 100 of my works and even with different subjects, different formats, different mediums, there's all an inherent structure to them - a way of seeing. I guess that's what we usually call 'style.' So in that sense it doesn't matter if I draw a cat or a house, at some level it's the same thing.

> I find drawing an intense and erratic experience, coupled with my emotions towards describing something, I am also not very respectful of the process, at least thats how it feels! When drawing from observation I also feel overwhelmed by the number of ways I could make an impression or response to the subject.

That's probably a good thing, if you're uncertain of where the drawing is going, or how to proceed, or (best yet) what you're looking at then you'll discover all sorts of goodies by continuing with it. It sounds a little like you're very concerned about making a finished work though, if you can forget about that I think you'll find it feels a lot easier. Draw to draw, not to have a drawing. When I started drawing seriously I made it a daily practice, and stuck all my drawings I did in a box (the one I mentioned earlier, actually - and seriously, I only looked at it maybe 3 weeks ago) and kept at it. When I looked at them a couple months into it, I was pretty astonished to find I was impressed with works I considered hopeless failures.

> I guess I am interested in drawings reflecting people's response to a subject.

No end to that, you can draw the same chair for the rest of your life, and it'll be different every time. Except not - same subjects, you and it.

> At present I tend to work more on computer, altering and composing images, I am happy that the traditional process or medium has been removed from my grasp but don't get me wrong I am aware of contraversies over the use of computers and also those who embrace technology as enabling further the communication or the expressive process and look to pursue it's development more radically.

I've found that those doing serious work on a computer work in a very similar way to those using traditional media. Which makes sense, ultimately it all comes down to making an image which transcends its medium.

hope that answers your question

~ Travis Wall ~
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