I saw my grade for the final drawing. Not gonna lie, I don't understand. I thought it was the best drawing I had produced all year. It was unfinished but I think even then, it was close to finished enough that the effect created by the unfinished features was not distracting. Traci told me during critique she enjoyed the unfinished qualities. To each their own.
As for the class: You're a cool guy. You try to make a class like drawing 2 cool. No offense to you, but I didn't like the techniques taught in drawing 2. I felt like I was being taught to ignore drawing 1 and found that the drawings were I was able to use line variation and skills taught in drawing 1 were most successful. I don't feel like I learned from the erasure drawings but everything after that point made sense. Working with toned paper was helpful but, still drawing 2 ain't my thing. Critiques were really different from what I'm used to. I had Remy last semester. We would spend one class drawing, the next critiquing. We would take our drawings and pin them up in the middle of class and Remy would briefly critique the unfinished drawings. I got used to it, I liked it. These critiques were much more informal and that made me feel comfortable but sometimes and oftentimes, my drawings wouldn't get discussed. It was cool to know I wasn't the worst and I knew I wasn't the best already. But just because I am in the B-C category doesn't mean I should be ignored. I wish critiques would have been as informal as they were but we would talk about every drawing, every time. Drawing for six hours is a drag, regardless. Sitting for six hours on the floor, hunched over and drawing doesn't sound like a good time and it isn't. I like drawing for shorter periods of time twice a week so that I can come back to the drawing after a day off and see if I still like the drawing. This is not your fault, none of these complaints are really your fault. It was cool that you should us your work. Hope to see ya around.
Kelsey, I heard everything you're saying. And I agree about the twice-a-week classes; even as the teacher I prefer those, and for the same reasons you mentioned. There is that break in between to refresh before getting back to business, and somehow there always seems to be more time for critiques and discussions, as well (though it technically shouldn't be the case). I understand your thoughts on the collage portrait, too, but I hold myself to my grade definitions in the syllabus, and it just wasn't quite finished. (And by the way, there was no problem using the conte with the collage. That's what you were supposed to do. I just wanted you to think of the collage as your PRIMARY source of value (to block in the general areas) and then move on to the conte. That's all. I will admit that in the beginning of this semester--with absences and your tendency to get get "chatty"--I was worried, but you managed to turn things around. You had very insightful things to say when we discussed the reading. You should be proud.
ReplyDeletethanks dood, i really am proud of some of my last drawings the collage ones. i know my work ethic isn't where it should be, i have been struggling with a lot of personal problems this semester. external struggles that shouldn't affect my work but! i am the most emotionally driven person imaginable. WORKING on it though. trying. promise!
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