About Elena Foulkes

This started as an experiment to see if I could draw something every day for a month. Basically, I can’t. So now it’s about finding ways of becoming more productive, drawing-wise.

Every biography I read of artists I admire says the same thing, that so-and-so started drawing/writing/painting/ etc. from the moment they chewed through the umbilical cord and picked up a brush/mouse/pen. I can honestly say I have always loved drawing, but in practice I’ve done very little of it. I’m too concerned with trying to produce “perfection”, and get upset when I produce things which I think are “crap”, which is a lot. However, I have somehow managed to retain, in spite of a very mean inner critic, a real enjoyment of drawing. Enough to rekindle, in ripe middle age, my childhood dream of being a cartoonist.

I plan to (although I probably won’t) publish everything I doodle, even the stuff I think think is hideous, not fit for the public eye, no better than the deranged scribblings of a blindfolded chimpanzee, without censoring myself in an effort to develop a more adventurous approach to drawing. I’ll also publish doodles contributed by others, knowingly or unknowingly, which I find inspiring.

I enjoy looking at the stuff I post, even if at the time I produced it I thought it was horrible. There’s usually something interesting about it which I’d like to re-use. And it has the desired effect of making me want to do more, which is the fundamental point of this blog.

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Love,

Elena