Thread: Keeping a Dream Sketch pad instead of journal?

i did that i drew little pictures instead of excat words in case my mom found out im keeping a journal of my dreams. but i cant draw so that idea went down the drain.

Yo peoples, Howetzer's right. Drawing isn't magic. It's a skill like any other and can be learned with patience and practice. Your first drawing will be crappy, expect that but don't be discouraged. Practice is the key and is completely nessecary. Even artists who a great at drawing have their own short comings they have to work on.
Anyone serious about learning to draw buy this book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. Read it and DO THE EXCERSIZES IN IT and you will learn to draw. It's the best book on the subject I've seen and while I am a rather good artist if I may say so myself, this book has still helped me enormously and would be good for those artists who already have the skill of drawing.

Originally posted by lucidnina+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lucidnina)</div>

Originally posted by Howetzer@
At least get you to a point of rendering somthing on paper that you can understand for yourself.

I'm sure there are tutorials out there. You would have to do a search. Drawing techniques or somthing.

Hey Howetzer...I idolize you!!!

hehe. [/b]

OMG! HOWETZER no you DID NOT!!! MODERATOR ABUSE!!!!!

I believe the original post went somEthing like this.

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Hey Howie...would you like to buy an \"E\"? hehe

just remember...you started it.

Originally posted by bradybaker
Has anyone here tried keeping an audio dream journal? I bought myself a fancy $80 digital voice recorder (mostly because I'm also writing a screenplay) and use it to record my dreams. As soon as I wake up I can record my dreams down to the finest detail (well, within the confines of language anyways).

I would like to try this, but I hate listening to myself on tape. It sure would be quicker than writing though, I bet you could get more details down.

the problem is there's something about voices that yanks me completely into the waking world. normally i lie still for awhile kinda half awake trying to remember what I dreamed, and writing doesn't wake me up the way speaking does.

Bizzy

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Has anyone here tried keeping an audio dream journal? I bought myself a fancy $80 digital voice recorder (mostly because I'm also writing a screenplay) and use it to record my dreams. As soon as I wake up I can record my dreams down to the finest detail (well, within the confines of language anyways).

I would like to try this, but I hate listening to myself on tape. It sure would be quicker than writing though, I bet you could get more details down.

the problem is there's something about voices that yanks me completely into the waking world. normally i lie still for awhile kinda half awake trying to remember what I dreamed, and writing doesn't wake me up the way speaking does.

Bizzy

I am going to be getting one of these within the next week. I'm with you Bizzy in both the fact that I don't like to hear myself on tape and that talking seems to snapp you back into concsiousness more so than writing.
I think as time passed you would get use to your own voice.

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Howetzer you know what you did.

Originally posted by lucidnina
Howetzer you know what you did.

Yes. To set the record straight lucidnina stated. But she does however have a telent for picking up spelling errors!