POST 8: A SUBJECT YOU ENJOY STUDYING

 

The subject I  enjoy since High School until university is drawing. In school it was fun at first, my teacher showed us how to position the hand to draw more “comfortably”. How to draw faces and how to harmonize the qualities of each model. We were also taught how to draw without erasing a line. My teacher literally took my eraser and threw it out of the room. Of course next class none of us took one again. His work was preparing us for college level and he did quite a good job.

Later at university I remember the exercises turn into something boring and repetative It wasn´t something like, “draw whatever you want and be expressive!”,noup,  not even in school. It was all about the technique, a straight stroke, the visual noise of the stroke width, and all this by hand. Once I was able to control that I started with the perspective and proportional measuring of objects.

 ¿did you know that the width of a line can show the material of the object you are drawing? I think that’s very cool. All this time it’s been about training the eyes to be able to manage the necessary visual information. take at least 4 hours to do one single drawing (the entire class).  Now I am faster and now I can do a lineal drawing in 2 hours.

After 8 years later I can’t say that I draw perfect lines, but, at least I improved my drawing.