After watching the Secret of Drawing 3, a few things struck me. Firstly, I really enjoyed the discussion and discourse around the professor and artist Sarah Simblet. I found her approach to art and teaching as more of an automatic and instinctual exercise rather than a strictly academic or technical exercise very fascinating and in a way, appealing. More often than not, I prefer very structural and technical exercises and assignments over free-flowing ones, but the idea of just being free in terms of the marks you make on paper helped me think about drawing in a new and unique way. Pablo Picasso’s place in art history was another portion of the video that intrigued me. I find his transition from more technical/draftsman type of works to more free and ‘automatic’ works of art very interesting. His spot in history as a transition between the more automatic type of art we see more modern artists use in comparison to an obsession over accurately depicting life certainly contributed and helped inspire his art and mindset towards drawing and art overall. Finally, avid Shrigley was an artist that I found very fun. His art has a very weird yet fun and almost childish atmosphere to it. The confidence with which he makes marks on the page has a somewhat freeing feel to it. His art certainly mirrors his shared belief with old surrealist artists about how drawing connects our subconscious to our hand to the page and the work that we as humans create. Overall, all three artists exhibit a desire to draw freely and as a way of exploring our subconscious mind and self.