It’s been almost a month since starting school, and I can tell you I feel like an artist again.
I have only one text book for the year, but the supplies I need and have to pay for (even with a discount) will equal the average or more for a regular student’s book fees for a year. Think in the $500’s of dollars and you get the picture. So even though my homework consists of drawing the contours of a common sisal rope or maybe the focal points in an image, distilled down to three brush-strokes, I too, bleed money like the rest of you students! Cast me not out of your communal shadow! If I drive to school, and pay to park, do I not walk the same distance to the campus? If I go to a local merchant and obtain a student discount, do you and I not use the same identification? If I turn out my pockets, are they not as empty as your own?
Do not shun me oh Arts Student! Do not turn your eyes from me, oh Engineer Graduate! Leave not my company oh young Scientist and English Major!
So as I alluded to in the above paragraph, I had to draw a rope for my Fundamentals of Drawing course.
We were to arrange a sisal rope in an interesting way on a piece of 30×22inch paper, and then draw it in a bird’s eye view, using only lines to define its texture. No shading allowed. The guy at the easel next to me completed his drawing (and it looks excellent) in about four classes, whereas it took me five classes and time at home, close to thirty hours. I can tell you with gladness and relief that it is complete.
Tomorrow I can pin it up on the wall, and await critiquing. As for drawing, I get to begin a charcoal drawing of a stuffed doll that I made at camp this summer.
I shall regal with tales of the aforementioned ‘Simon’ in a future post, as well as some anecdotes of my Minneapolis Art Field trip. Oh the tales I will tell! Now, to sleep, for dawn hastens on the wings of night.
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This was finished this evening.
Forty-five minutes of the last two sections, and flourishing tail.
That looks incredible my friend! And I wont shun you for not needed to buy books, you obviously spent more money on supplies than I did on books. I look forward to many more drawrings, and remember to be careful around those light, one tricky step and the whole place could go up.
Wow!! That looks amazing Tim! I never realized you had so much talent. I remember when I saw you drawing the rope, I thought it was a funny/interesting project.
It turned out beautiful. Job well done!
You pay a small amount more than me in art supplies, and yet, in my mind, I still desire you shun you as an art student. What I am forced into buying I will rarely use again, and although i will try to sell them to deminish the pain of the $140 text, the prof will change the text so that I am unable to. At the same time I see your art and am able to appreciate it, knowing that it is a job well done.
seriously, I really like your drawing and i look forward to seeing more!