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I'm taking a "Learn How to Draw" class at the high school. The instructor is the art teacher at the school, and we're working in her room. The steps we're taking to learn to draw are the same steps the high-schoolers take. I started a few weeks ago, and already I'm getting better. Here are a few of my projects:
On the small piece of paper is a copy of a drawing of Igor Stravinsky, done by Pablo Picasso. We were told to "enlarge" it onto the big piece of paper. But - we had to draw it upside down. Here is my version, right side up. I did pretty well, until I got to the hands, and then all heck broke loose.
Our first exercises in the class were to draw our own hands. This, according to the teacher, is a very hard thing to do. She claims that if you can draw an outline of your own hand, you can pretty much draw anything. (We'll see!) The top drawing of the three hand poses was our final project for the first class, and before that I had drawn three hand poses on another piece of paper as practice. Since the hands are recognizable as such, I consider that a victory.
Below the hands, you can see part of a larger project where we have 16 rectangles in which we are supposed to draw items starting with the letter A, B, C, and so on. On the shelves in the room was a broken violin, and I picked it up and put it back a few times before I got up the nerve to try to draw it as my "I" picture (I is for Instrument.) It didn't look very good to me, but then I stood up from the table and saw it from a distance, and it started to look better.
I have several more classes to go, and I'm looking forward to them.
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Gratuitous cat picture
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