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Pastels - Class #6
Jun. 25th, 2004 03:13 amIt was "show and tell" for me, since I was asked to bring in my orchid from a couple of weeks ago so someone could see it, as well as my wolf from the drawing class. Plus, when I left class last week, my tiger was only half done - I spent another 2 hours in the back yard working on it after class. So I had to bring that in, too, so everyone could see the finished piece. People were impressed by my wolf, the one person who hadn't seen the orchid thought that it was nifty, and people were very impressed by my tiger, which is nice, because I'm rather proud of how the tiger turned out. The instructor did point out one place that I goofed up, which is fine, because I'm already aware of some other places in it that I goofed up. The important part is that even though it's flawed it still looks pretty nifty, and that I'm happy with it.
It was suggested that I move on from animals and try something different for the last class, since I seem to be doing well enough with animals that I could just practice them on my own. = ) I tried a landscape, but ran into a couple of problems and didn't manage to finish before the end of the class. The really funny thing is that I also spent some of my time giving the person next to me feedback on their portrait they were doing. They decided that, based on my work, I am very "detail oriented," and wanted my opinion on ways to make their picture look more like the photo they were working from. It was surreal. I mean, it's nice to have people compliment my stuff and say that I'm talented, but this felt like it was getting out of hand. Last week, when I was part way done with the tiger, the instructor said she was going to bring in her Chinese brush paintings of tigers to see if I could point out how she could make them look more like tigers and less like cats...and she did. It was very odd to go from being the student with the least experience in the medium (well, tied with two other people, I think) to being asked for advice.
Anyway, I'm glad I moved on from drawing fruit and flowers for those last few classes - I think I got a lot more out of them and enjoyed them a lot more. Maybe I'll take another class in something in the Fall, but there doesn't seem to be anything for Summer that I'm interested in, and it might give me more time to practice people and horrible monsters, which is what I'd probably be drawing professionally anyway.
It was suggested that I move on from animals and try something different for the last class, since I seem to be doing well enough with animals that I could just practice them on my own. = ) I tried a landscape, but ran into a couple of problems and didn't manage to finish before the end of the class. The really funny thing is that I also spent some of my time giving the person next to me feedback on their portrait they were doing. They decided that, based on my work, I am very "detail oriented," and wanted my opinion on ways to make their picture look more like the photo they were working from. It was surreal. I mean, it's nice to have people compliment my stuff and say that I'm talented, but this felt like it was getting out of hand. Last week, when I was part way done with the tiger, the instructor said she was going to bring in her Chinese brush paintings of tigers to see if I could point out how she could make them look more like tigers and less like cats...and she did. It was very odd to go from being the student with the least experience in the medium (well, tied with two other people, I think) to being asked for advice.
Anyway, I'm glad I moved on from drawing fruit and flowers for those last few classes - I think I got a lot more out of them and enjoyed them a lot more. Maybe I'll take another class in something in the Fall, but there doesn't seem to be anything for Summer that I'm interested in, and it might give me more time to practice people and horrible monsters, which is what I'd probably be drawing professionally anyway.
