- Was it fun? Was it frustrating? Do you like to draw? Will you ever try again?
Doing this activity made me realize that I don’t like to draw when the subject is not very appealing to me. Especially with nature, I’m not good at capturing all the details in elaborate trees. It makes me feel overwhelmed with all the detail that is on the bark or with every leaf that hangs off of each branch. I enjoy to paint more than drawing, so if it were painting I probably would try again and it might come out a bit better than these drawings.
- Do you think if you practiced for 100 hours, or 1,000, that you would get a lot better?
Most definitely! Practice makes perfect like they say and I definitely didn’t spend enough time to perfect this work, but it’s all that wanted to come out of me at the moment.
- What is your major? Can you think of any ways that simple sketching of some kind could be useful in your major?
My major is Biology which is way off from art. Most of the time I use my brain to solve equations, memorize classes of species, or just freak out for every exam that comes by. If I were to incorporate any art into my major it would probably have to be sketching different molecules in Chemistry or types of animals. Other than that I haven’t seen much art be used in my major.
- Is Drawing a Language? Can drawings say things that are hard to say with words?
I do think that drawing can be a language. For example, I’ve seen paintings of decades ago that if it weren’t painted I would not be able to get the full picture of what happened at that moment in time. Nor could anyone explain it well enough to where I would get the full grasp/emotion of what that moment felt like. My drawings don’t really capture much feeling or language, but they are straight forward to what they are.
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