This past week’s activity we again met at Piotr Kowalski’s 1965 sculpture NOW. There we sat and just observed and sketched. We created 6 drawing, 2 drinks, 2 trees and 2 people.
Ultimately this week’s activity was both very fun and frustrating to me because I really enjoy drawing but I am a perfectionist. To elaborate on that, throughout high school I took numerous art classes and was constantly drawing, sketching, painting, and sculpting. So when returning to drawing this past Wednesday I felt like I wasn’t at my 100%, which is why I was so frustrated.
But when asked “Do you think if you practiced for 100 hours, or 1,000, that you would get a lot better?” I believe you would get better the more hours you put and work into something. It’s the same as math, skateboarding and many other activities. The more you draw you get a better feel for the pencil or pen and it might inspire you more to keep drawing too.
In addition I am a criminal justice major and simple sketching does indeed come in hand/useful in my major. For instance, say someone got robbed and there was only one witness. Police would have that witness be interviewed by a criminal sketch artist who would make a drawing or even a 3D rendering on the computer of the perp.
Lastly, in my opinion I believe that drawing is not a language. I consider a language to be full of words that you can communicate but drawings can’t speak/have full languages. However, I do believe drawings can have hidden meanings in them and can create a message.
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