There is something about taking a photo, or an item in front of you and recording it with your pencil. There is something about the struggle of getting the right shading. There is something about learning more.
I love all forms of art, but something about drawing truly captures my heart. Amonsgt the stress of classes, friends and getting my shit together for life, art has always been there is support my mental health. Whether is be music while I study or drawing which completely sucks me into a sort of trance, the arts are truly a gift from God. Art has saved my life a time or two and it has helped life me out of some of the most depressing times of my life. I am thankful for my family and friends and their attempts to keep me sane, but honestly I think if i was not enrolled in art classes my sophomore year and senior year I would still be here, or at least at the level of self-satisfaction I have with my life. ARt blessed me another time, second semester freshmen year. I was at a point where I wasn’t sure where I was going in life, if being in college was for me. But after taking that class it really made me fall in love with my school. Not only the class did this, but the people in your art class did this for me. Art classes are different then you major focused or math & English classes, because anyone will be in them. You can have the frat star sitting next to the Starbuck’s worker, next to that girl whose taking to fill a GE. It really amazes me the different souls in art classes. Those classes are also some of the least judgmental classes I have ever taken, and at that point I was well over my freshmen 15, yet people were always focused on my sketches and not my body.
I find myself, two years later, finally sitting in an art room again. I have been waiting to draw once again. It is a Life Drawing class and I am very excited to draw the body and face, because faces and bodies are my weakest points. Something about how complex the body is that makes it near impossible for me, but I think the greatest factor I have on my side in this call is my professor! He is literally the most adorable professor I have ever had, and so far my second favorite art teacher, and we are only on day 3 of classes!
Sorry if you don’t like art, or don’t like what I post, but this is a place for me to express myself. As the semester goes on I will continue to post my progress. Below is our first lesson, Grids & the Skull. (1) We first did a step by step drawing on a grid of the profile view of the skull. (2) We then did an on our own with the grid of the front view of the skull. (3) Finally we were sent home with the task to draw the front view without a grid.
My own personal mini-art studio work sesh in my room this morning, finishing up my skull for this tonight.
(123) Missy Megan 