So before we start our first exercise, I just want to address another topic first and that is called feeling into the process. Now feeling into the process. This is something that will be gauged by the type of person that you are and how deep you want to go into this as a spiritual practice or if you're wanting to take it into a more practical level. At the end of this video, there will be a meditation available for you to download and do prior to starting your drawing practice. However, even if you're not going to meditate before each drawing I want you to feel into the process. I want you to take three deep breaths and I want you to set your intentions for the drawing.

What are you wanting to create? What emotions are you wanting to convey? Why are you choosing to do this drawing? Maybe you could feel into your current feelings in your headspace Are you possibly in brain or right brain mode, and we'll talk about that a little bit later. Are you somewhere in between? Are you feeling happy, relaxed, angry or frustrated.

And then often it's a good idea to reflect after we have done the drawing and see where I hid spaces, then see if perhaps we have changed head spaces as well. Sometimes it's a great idea to choose a medium that is going to express our emotions. And we'll talk about this more deeply in lesson five. But for example, charcoal is a great way to get anger and frustration out. If we're feeling soft and light, maybe just a light graphite pencil is a great way to go. However your feeling is what you should do.

Okay, let's get on to the first exercise which is called drawing without an eraser. My intentions for this drawing to feel into the process and to let go of expectations and the end result and that is why we're drawing without an eraser. This is not about the end result. This is just about playing with technique and forms. And feeling free to express whatever comes out. Throughout this course, we're going to be drawing a lot of things in nature.

Nature has its own freedom and its own imperfections. So therefore, it is a really great way to start with the drawing process. And these mountains have great form and shadow. And we will be able to play with this idea as we go along. Today, I'm working on cartridge paper, and I have A to B pencil. And one thing that I'll be doing throughout the video a lot is using a test page.

So because I've just sharpened this pencil, I'm just going to soften the edge with it so that it doesn't create a really hard line. So I've just softened off that pencil a little bit and that will help with the start of the drawing. My Space is a lot bigger than the drawing that I want to create. So I often like to work within a border. And then I have a reference for proportion and scale. But because this is not a perfect drawing, I'm just going to start wherever I want on the page.

And I'm going to start creating that edge of the mountain. And I'm looking at my picture reference a lot at the moment to create that mountainous edge. And as I move through the drawing, I will be looking less and less at my picture and more and more at what I'm creating. But for the moment, my eyes are on my picture a lot. And I am creating a basic outline that I am then going to come back and shade in later. So the beauty about these mountains is I can go wherever I want and I'm getting Got up, I'm gonna create a nice peak to the mountain shape.

And then I'm gonna come back down the mountain. I'm going to create some cutting in detail there, some foreground detailing here. And my cloud line will be roughly up here, and I can create some cloud shading later. And now that I've created that beautiful line, I can go back and with a really great freedom and movement with my pencil, I can create shadow in detail. And again, what I love about drawing night chat is it does not need to be perfect. We can really go to town with that expression here.

And just Texture away. So I'm having a lot of fun with this story. It's a really interesting texture that we get to create with these mountains. And you can see here, I've got an area that doesn't really match the picture at all. I've just decided that I want to add a little valley in here. And I didn't really mean to do that at first.

It just sort of happened. And so now I'm running with it. I'm embracing my mistake, and I am turning it into a positive part of the drawing. So I'm going to really take it down And create some foreground darkness here to give my drawing a bit of depth and dimension. And that's often what it's all about drawing without an eraser can really help us to release the idea of trying to create an exact copy of the picture and rather just embracing what we're doing at the time. Okay, stop.

After 10 minutes, I want you to stop drawing. And I want you to walk away from your drawing. If you can, before you go, close your computer or turn the original image over so that when you come back, you are not comparing to the original image and you are not comparing to what I have just demonstrated. This is about your drawing. And it's about looking at what you have done well, I want you to go congratulate yourself on creating a image of nature that is perfectly imperfect. And that's what this is all about.

It's your turn now, so please download the learning materials to recap yourself if you need on any of the information I have just delivered. There is also exercise instructions where you will find the image of the mountains. So please download this and take 10 minutes of your time to complete this exercise and congratulate yourself at the end