Finding Your Soulful Line

This week, I am excited to talk about the soulful line and share thoughts behind the new course Drawing Soulfully. This blog post can be watched as a video here!

We want to achieve something grand with art, but in reality, art begins with something so small it almost goes unnoticed. Art begins with a line. Style begins with a line. Bringing soul to paper begins with a line. When we say we can’t draw, it means we haven’t become friends with our line.

At first, a line can be clumsy and closed off. But when it opens up, and a connection is found, drawing becomes a channel for our creativity. Even when we draw every day, we don’t have to draw just everyday life, but we can also escape it by drawing. We can draw more than we dare to dream, because on paper, even the impossible is possible.

That is why art can’t be born only in your head; it is born when you create. Through the pen, you see further. Your soulful line connects you with art, making you understand your taste, your style, and as it all develops, a new world is born. Your art is born.

From Living Line to Soulful Line

For a long time, I have wanted to create a comprehensive course on drawing. In the past, I have had courses like that — Inspirational Drawing and its successor, Inspirational Drawing 2.0. Those courses were retired quite some time ago, and over the years, I have discovered new ideas and concepts that weren’t included in them. However, the core philosophy (which also forms the foundation of my own artistry) remains the same: in art, the line is the beginning of everything, the seed of expression from which everything else grows.

I decided to make the new course and name it Drawing Soulfully.

I have talked a lot about the living line, but when I started working on this course, ‘living’ no longer felt like enough. Our line may look lively, but do we live within our line? Do we feel the line all the way in our souls? This is what an artist wants to strive for!

Drawing Soulfully

Drawing Soulfully is about expressing yourself through drawing. It’s a journey into your artistry and teaches a way to work towards your style. We will draw mostly with black pens, and then color some of the drawings with watercolors and colored pencils. We will use reference images for some projects, but in a creative way that broadens your perspective.

In Drawing Soulfully, I want you to think about your artistic roots – the cultural history that touches you. In the course, I also share some of mine. At the end of the 19th century, many artists who studied or worked in central Europe came back to Finland for the summer. They read, wrote, and painted in their summer cottages, and thus, captured the best season in their souls. Yet, in the past, they didn’t have all the ways to express their emotions. There were walls that no longer exist. Nowadays, we can free up our pens and pour it all out on paper.

Your line is your voice. Just like for a singer, a great voice isn’t just about physical technique — it’s about connecting the voice to the soul.

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