Every now and then in this world of digital, I often ask myself do I still have it... ?
It, is my talent in drawing, in painting, in... ART?
I spent years doing Graphic Design and Computer Animation that I actually don't get to draw much... Yes I doodle and sketch out ideas, but to actually do a full drawing is never there. With being a teacher many of the projects I show how to do and I delete or don't save. They are never complete and never given my full effort to create, because I am demonstrating how to use a particular tool or a particular concept.
So with the question of "Do I still have it?" in my mine, I pick up my pencil and draw. Draw anything, I typically settle on one of the skulls in my classroom. I have three; two deer (a spike buck and doe), and a bull. I spend maybe a total of an hour drawing with whatever I have available. This time I had printer paper (I looked for drawing paper), a couple charcoal pencils, and a Sanguine Pastel (the redish/sienna one). Within an hour of drawing, broken up between helping students and teaching, I feel pretty strong that I still have my talent.
Every now and then I have to show that drawing is an integral part and the basis of Fine Art, and also to "Get back on the Bike."
With that being said, DRAW...
If I can create it in a 3D world, I sure can draw it.
It, is my talent in drawing, in painting, in... ART?
I spent years doing Graphic Design and Computer Animation that I actually don't get to draw much... Yes I doodle and sketch out ideas, but to actually do a full drawing is never there. With being a teacher many of the projects I show how to do and I delete or don't save. They are never complete and never given my full effort to create, because I am demonstrating how to use a particular tool or a particular concept.
So with the question of "Do I still have it?" in my mine, I pick up my pencil and draw. Draw anything, I typically settle on one of the skulls in my classroom. I have three; two deer (a spike buck and doe), and a bull. I spend maybe a total of an hour drawing with whatever I have available. This time I had printer paper (I looked for drawing paper), a couple charcoal pencils, and a Sanguine Pastel (the redish/sienna one). Within an hour of drawing, broken up between helping students and teaching, I feel pretty strong that I still have my talent.
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| 1-Hour Deer Skull, Multi-Media (Graphite, Charcoal, Pastel) |
Student Reaction
The fun thing I find out every time I do this is my students never believe/think that I actually can draw. I spend so much time teaching Digital Media that they forget I have BFA in Studio Art (Computer Animation). To get a BFA you have to have 3 drawing classes, 2 painting classes, print-making classes, sculpture classes, ceramics classes, metals/jewelry classes, a whole-lotta art history classes, with an emphasis in an area in the Studio Art realm (mine just happens to be Computer Animation.) In other words a lot of money spent on Art...Every now and then I have to show that drawing is an integral part and the basis of Fine Art, and also to "Get back on the Bike."
With that being said, DRAW...
Draw what you see, Draw what is around you,
just DRAW.
Here is a lesson for my students, when I draw I break it into Flat Polygons. It is easier to concentrate on the flat plains than to draw the whole. I look at it like I am going to create it in 3D, small sections at a time. Break it all into the simplest form. When I have it broken into Polygons, I think of which way is that Polygon facing and what is the best way to show it facing up/left/right? How does it connect to the next one? I always think how each part fits together. Learning...
If I can create it in a 3D world, I sure can draw it.
