Observational drawings, where the struggle begins.
For the first week my homework assignment was to make one observational drawing per day and well, when I read the syllabus I thought I was simply supposed to draw a few objects here and there, but then my roommate told me that the objects I was drawing needed to have some sort of background, instead of just being a bunch of floating objects in a yellow page. After that I tried to follow the idea of adding a background, however when I did that they ended up a lot more like illustrations than realistic sketches.
In class assignments: Apples, hands and still life.
“Draw an apple”, to me, that seems to be the most cliché subject I would see in a movie or cartoon where the characters were taking an art class. It was just funny that I was living a scene I had watched so many times when I was younger, when I had no idea that one day that I would cross paths with an apple as my model. It was a fun experience, because an apple is such a trivial object that you think it is going to be an easy task, until the moment when you actually start tracing the first few lines.
Hands have always been a challenge for me and hopefully at some point it won’t be anymore. I really liked the difference I had between the first and the second picture, I wish I properly knew what made me look and draw different.
About my still life work I don’t have a lot to say except: I need more practice. I think the big deal occurs between my hands and my eyes, I draw what I cannot see, or perhaps I could say that I draw what my imagination projects, it seems that I create a certain angle in which I am able to draw, instead of just drawing what I actually see.
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