“Learning to See”
The drawing was a unique experience. Of course, my problem wasn’t with naming the shapes on the drawing, but it was trying to accurately replicate it. It wasn’t difficult for me to not see shapes and only see lines and relationships. I just had a hard time portraying those same relationships on my own paper. I think that the hands on my drawing were the best part, and the whole face was the worst. Overall I don’t believe that I did horribly on the drawing; just, perhaps, that the face is a little terrifying. Had I allowed myself more time, I would have focused more and tried to pay more attention to the details and the relationships between the lines. I took about 30 minutes on the drawing, but it felt like 5 minutes. For the most part my mind was blank, except for a monologue regarding what I was doing. “Okay, so since this line ends here, this line will go here, and then there’s these lines here…” Of course, I couldn’t completely disregard what I was drawing. At the start of my drawing I remember laughing and thinking, “This guy is gonna look like a messed up Megamind.” At that point I tried to focus less on what I was drawing and more on how. This was definitely a unique experience- drawing an image upside down- but it wasn’t something totally new. I’m by no means an artist. On a rare occasion, I do enjoy trying to draw something. I usually have some sort of reference, and I often follow the lines or guides of the reference while keeping the item that I am drawing in the back of mind. I tried to avoid even that during this assignment. It was difficult not to think, “I’m drawing a man” at the start, but at the end I was focused on just the lines and their relationship to each other.
