Am I too old to learn to draw?
It is never too late to learn something. I often hear from readers who have taken up drawing in their 40s through to 60s and older. Matisse didn't pick up a brush until he was 33. Plenty of people have successful career changes quite late in life. This is especially relevant to the many of the arts, where a rich and varied life experience adds to your art. Often, young prodigies 'burn out' at an early age. They have nothing to say in their work, because they haven't experienced anything. They end up making art-about-art. So. Go get your pencils and start learning to draw, today.
What was that? Where do you start? Why, at the beginning, of course...
Try some of these:
Before You Buy Drawing Equipment
Before You Buy Graphite Pencils
How to Hold a Pencil
Curly Wire Drawing
Blind Contour Drawing
Draw a Simple Still Life
Comments
I ahve often though this question myself. Being in my early 30s, I have never been very artistic. I can barely draw a stick figure to look like a person. However, I have great love of drawing and hope to devote time to learning to draw as soon as I get past my CPA exam.
I am 61 and just started to draw last year! And I think I am pretty good!
hey, i’m 65 and have taken up sumie
painting. Of course, work still gets in the way, but i put brush to paper every now and then. it is never too late if you really want to do/learn something.
You are only as old as you feel, start drawing.
Before we moved interstate, I taught a community art group, and most of the women who came along were around 60. We had a marvellous time and there was some real talent there – one woman in particular went from being very insecure about her ability to really finding her ‘niche’ and doing some truly beautiful drawings and paintings.