21 September 2012

Hands/Feet


Above, are two photos of the view from my drawing class, at 9AM.  The building in the pictures look out at Smith Hall, the dorm that I live in.  Since the Smith Hall building is an asymmetrical triangle, from the drawing-classroom, Smith Hall appears larger than it really is.

I enjoy mornings.  Since all of my classes are morning classes, I wake up when the city begins to wake up, and before the sun is high.  I have a cup of coffee with breakfast every morning, and look outside at the school (the North/East-building [I'm not sure what it's really called] is the older part of the school), and at the few trees that are by the building.  Every few minutes, there is the sound of the T-stop (train stop) directly in front of my dorm, and the sounds of cars in traffic.



Last Wednesday, I turned in my Drawing homework assignment, to draw the: right hand, left foot, and  right foot, five drawings per extremity, drawing with the left-hand (I'm right-handed), without looking the paper, and spend 30-minutes per drawing.
I was only able to spend 10-20 minutes per drawing, and when I met with my advisor (about scheduling), I talked to him about this assignment.
When I turned my drawing in on Wednesday, I was the only student who did the right (who understood the assignment).

The lesson of this assignment was the following:
To practice intense focus
To sync your eye-movement to hand-movement
To loose the "ego" of trying to draw a recognizable hand/foot

3 comments:

  1. It sounds to me like you're in the right place.

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  2. It does'nt surprise me that you got the assignment right.

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    1. It was mentally very difficult for me to do this assignment. When I was doing the project, I thought that I was doing it wrong, and that it was pretty stressful.

      I usually assume that I'll do the (any) assignment wrong, so I have lower expectations, in a way

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