Today’s Drawing Class
The drawing class today was fun. Actually, there has not been one that has not been fun and where I have not learned something and that will be on my evaluation..
So, today, first Jean the instructor put up some pictures and had us discuss the kinds of things about them that she wants us to put in our papers. I have plans to go to the museum possibly tomorrow if I can persuade Fred to drive me {parking is horrible on weekdays} and again on Saturday when all parking is free and I can drive myself. When I have decided on my picture choice, I will definitely get my ideas down here.
Next, we drew a generic-person full-face picture of a face with the "rules " for getting the nose and mouth in the right places in relation to each other. Then we did the same thing with a profile. An amusing thing we did was to check pictures of celebrities faces as to how much they adhered to the "rules." After that we broke into pairs and spent twenty minutes modeling for a profile and a full face for each other. I did quite well with the profile of my partner, Julie, but not too well with the front face one. I know what I did wrong though. Julie has very pretty slightly up-slanted eyes and I made them too big for her face and then tried to fix the mistake by lengthening her face. This did not turn out too well! We got to turn in whichever one we thought was the best for the classwork grade so I turned in the profile which was much better. It was the one I had done second so I had looked at Julie’s face a lot by then. She did a really good job on both she did of me. She asked me which one she should turn in and I chose the profile. I am going to take my camera next week and take a picture of it when she gets it back.
Oh, and for homework for Tuesday we have to do a portrait of ourselves full face looking in a mirror—no photographs! Tomorrow I will take a picture of the drawing I made from a photograph of my brother-in-law and put it here. Incidentally, Jean said very nice things about it…
Tonight I am doing nothing more strenuous than lounge on the bed and watch Law and Order reruns!
Until later…
Is ther a time of day that you can watch tv and NOT get Law and Order reruns? lol I love that show…but I think I’ve seen every episode at least twice.
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L&O is great, altho’ J whines and moans every time I sit to watch an episode. Guess I can’t please everyone! RYN: yes, meeting the local group was fun, very much the arts crowd which is nice. And the blessed coolth! It was wonderful today.
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wow!
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Try using a tri-color pencil when doing timed sketches. It will force you to not “think” about where your pencil. Try to see the relationships and the proportions. Find a key such as the width of the eye and then you’ll discover that the ear from that angle is “half-an-eye” wide, etc. Pick whatever is the easiest and use it throughout.
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It sounds like such a good course. More photes?
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Your self portrait should be fun and interesting. Good for you on your teacher’s good comments. It’s always nice to get appreciation. You snuggle up and watch tv and I am going to get warm under the covers and read. Brrr…it’s chilly.
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That to me is the perfect class. You have fun and yet you learn something. I fear that some of my students think because they have fun, that I am easy and they don’t learn, but trust me they do. There is always a moral to my stories, a lesson to be learned, something new to be discovered, if they would only open their minds and hearts.
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I look forward to seeing the pictures. I’m also curious about the picture you will chose to write about. Interesting idea.
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so glad you are learning something in each class. if not, it would be a boring class and not worth the effort you put into it. take care,
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