I was in life drawing today, and besides me being reminded of the fact I am beautifully horrible at drawing people I was reminded of some stuff I thought was really good. Well the first thing I have to say is really not anything super profound, but more so interesting. Trevor, my prof, keeps telling us not to draw with lines, he then pointed out no where in natural creation there are lines, and people don't have lines so we should not be so set on drawing people with lines. Yeah this may sound a bit odd, but he has a very valid point. In nature and people a line is an illusion, thing about it. It is just an area where two colors merge, or where depth changes. Interesting. But the most interesting thing was in one of his speeches where he was encouraging us to do what feels comfortable, as long as we are stuff pushing ourselves to try new things. Every time we draw something, no matter what it is, he makes us show everyone in the class. We did a bunch of one minute studies of our class mates today and after we filled our page we had to show one another. It was obvious who was stiff and risking nothing and those who were taking chances despite the time crunch. After a few rounds of this he stopped us and said he had seen us all improve quite a bit from the first hour we started. He then went on to say not to look at people who have had more experience and try to imitate their style, or any one's style for that matter. All that mattered was figuring out what style makes you the most comfortable and taking risks and trying new things to develop your skill. he went on to use it as a metaphor for life and how people are attracted to confident people. We see them and have a tendency to want to be like them, but really we just need to embrace who we our and our individual differences. We cannot expect people to be exactly the same at all, no two things in nature are exactly the same, and no two people are the same. We were all purposefully designed and this design will never be repeated.
Even though this is not new info, it was just nice to be reminded of....
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Wanting to emulate someone confidant is sort of a catch 22. On the one hand you want to be like them because you aren't already. If you're able to manage that, be confidant, self assure, whatever, then you're no longer copying that person you wanted to be like.
I guess the idea is to 'let go' and just be.
good recall of the class - I'm looking forward to the mad art skillz we'll all have at the end!
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