Your Ugly Art Holds Secrets ✨ Drawing Ugly Birds & Listening to What They Have to Say

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[@_lenny_____leonardo]

thanks for this, i really enjoyed drawing some ugly birds! your winning ugly bird reminds me of a drawing i did as a kid called "my shark car."

[@marienoellewurm]

Haha yesss that sounds so accurate! 😁 wish I could see yours too!

[@ltlmissquinson742]

❤ Edit after watching the whole video: Blue bird without the feet looks like a penguin to me❤ And this goes to show how subjective art and perceiving art is! Would have rated your birds completely different though I know it's not my place ❤ Gonna go draw ugly birds now ❤❤

[@marienoellewurm]

glad you like it!

[@marienoellewurm]

oh that's so interesting, thanks so much for updating your comment and letting me know what you thought! Yes it's so true that art is so subjective... so that's why it's interesting that we get so 'caught' on the word 'ugly' - it really doesn't mean as much as we think it does! And yayyy hope you have fun drawing some uglly birds!

[@UNKUHNOODLES]

WOAH!!!! All them sharp pencils on the left are OMINOUS!!! 😜😜😜😜😜🤘

[@marienoellewurm]

hahahahaha this made me laugh so much and you're so right!! Guess what... I had JUST bought a new pencil sharpener hahahahaha 🙈

[@marienoellewurm]

that's why the purple bird is looking at us like 'whut'. 😂

[@anapaulaotero-illustration875]

Great video, Marie! In fact this is deepely connected to the prefectionism and the pressure you put upon ourselves to not create bad art. I simple can't seem to be able to draw in a propper sketchbookm because of that fier. I usually make my own repurposed sketchbooks because of that. I even called one of them my "ugly" sketchbook. There's a tour on my channel if you want to see it. That was exactly to try and not feel precious about my drawings. Thanks for sharing this exercise! It very useful!

[@merviart]

Yes yes for ugly art! ❤❤❤

[@marienoellewurm]

yesss ugly art is the best :) :)

[@alissa7286]

Bird #2 and #1 (upper right) are my absolute faves. Interesting that you disliked the upper right one and I love it. 🩷

[@marienoellewurm]

haha yes that's so funny!! isn't it fascinating how our perspectives on 'ugliness' is SO subjective??

[@suzyhomemaker6240]

thank you Marie!! Originally found you on Skillshare (LOVE skillshare) and appreciate you and your style, talent, warmth and more. I had a hard time "trying" to draw ugly birds. Just didn't know what to do so I replicated yours and loved them. Not the original point but was great to follow along and loved what you were saying about responding to how others might view the work as "ugly" and what my response might be. Ummmm....don't remember asking for feedback, haha. I love your lightness, possible responses and thoughts, which I'll keep in my pocket! I'm very new to art at 59 and just love playing with different mediums and Skillshare has been such an awesome resource. Thanks so much again. xo

[@marienoellewurm]

oh I'm so glad you enjoyed the video Suzy and thanks for your kinds words! :) and yesss I love skillshare too, it's why I was so happy to be partnered with them for his video! But yay for allowing yourself to do what felt right today and studying/replicating my birds. It would be fun if you did the exercise again and this time tried to allow yourself to make your own ugly birds. Remmeber, since they're ugly, they can be whatever you want, even just a big circle with a beak and two legs!! Let me know if you end up trying that, it would be fun to know if it got a bit easier! all the best

[@nicola1466]

Love this title, it's late here but I'll try tomorrow. I was always afraid to draw and paint as I felt ashamed of how "untalented" I am. At 35 I'm relearning to play and enjoy my art, however it may look!

[@irenepeek3211]

Wise words young lady 💯. Thank you 👏

[@marienoellewurm]

I'm so glad you liked it :)

[@ΕλένηΧρυσαφίδου-τ8γ]

I think that all of them are pretty!

[@marienoellewurm]

awww thank you!

[@taliykat3712]

yay this came just in time as i was stressing over my illustration. Making the ugly art helps me reset. thank you. My 3rd bird was soo ugly he is a combination of all the things i dont like about birds lol but after a few scribbles he looks tough and similar to some sort of logo design. I love your blue bird he has soo much character.

[@bySaedie]

Thank you following along i learned a lot. I needed this.

[@marienoellewurm]

I'm so glad!

[@random.oddities]

I love making ugly art!

[@marienoellewurm]

yesss it's so fun!!

[@randall1073]

I actually think the third one that you drew is pretty cute.

[@marienoellewurm]

Hihi thanks! It just goes to show how subjective everything is, right??

[@Psicodulcinea]

Hi again!!! 💓

[@marienoellewurm]

hi! :D

[@Laila_MertilVD]

primaaa

[@alext1955]

I got into urban sketching and for the first time summoned the courage to do a sketch and watercolour in public at a cafe with a friend in a little sketchbook. Hadn't done portraits in a while, but sketched her out, and was pretty horrified at what I drew, how she came across in the sketch. Proportions wrong, looked older etc, and couldn't explain the concept of the style of loose sketching. The experience destroyed me and the little confidence I gained :( Another friend joined and showed her; didn't go down well either. To be fair it was pretty ugly. I am scarred now and can't open that sketchbook anymore.

[@randall1073]

Aw man that sucks. Whenever I create an ugly piece, I just remind myself that if I keep doing this over and over again, I'll eventually get better. I find it to be a very effective way to cope. Keep it up man, wish you the best of luck.

[@alext1955]

@@randall1073 Thank you! I like reading that while looking at your avatar! Likewise, wish you the best out there too!

[@JCarrera27]

👏✨

[@marienoellewurm]

🤗❤

[@mickrozycki451]

Technically, they are not ugly birds. Just a different visual interpretation using shapes

[@marienoellewurm]

yes you're totally right! And that's why I think it's fun to do - it helps us realize that 'ugly' really doesn't mean that much in the grand scheme of our art journey. :D

[@Antisympathy]

Right. I’ve seen videos or sketchbook tours of drawings like this and they say it’s their art style. 🤔

[@mickrozycki451]

@@Antisympathy It can be described as a style. :)

[@Antisympathy]

@@mickrozycki451 I thought style was intentional choices compiled over time with certain aspects or traits that someone like to get their art to look close to how they envisioned it in their mind. In my opinion the drawings I seen similar to this video didn’t look intentional but as if they just settled because they weren’t making the progress they thought they would make or something. I understand not everyone have funds to buy online courses to learn how to improve so they go the self taught route but chalking it up to being a style is like they stopped learning because of frustration of being stagnant for so long or something.

[@Laila_MertilVD]

First

[@marienoellewurm]

haha hellooo

[@debsllewelyn230]

Love them xxxx

[@marienoellewurm]

Hihi thanks!