Afterthoughts II

My class's lecturer is a sculptor who teaches part time at a few institutes. I think he is very appalled by the overall standard in the class, for all of us does not have an art background.

(But I do guess I have a slight edge cos I was an art student and I am a designer. Yet this may prove to be causing my fall because I tend to over-think simple matters.)

For the first lesson, CK arranged us to do drawing.

But instead of the usual still life, he wanted us to look at a picture of an animal, and imagine the animal in cubes, spheres, cylinders and cones.

In short, breaking the body structure into simple forms.

It is really in such a class lesson where I realise how short my attention span is. While he is teaching, I listened attentively, and began to form an idea in my mind of what I want to draw.

CK did an example using an elephant, and not unusual to my nature to oppose, I chose an ostrich, an animal which is totally different from the one that picked for an example.

Actually, I didnt deliberately made that choice. But I saw my classmates poring over the books of various animals and couldnt decide, and again, probably due to job nature, I decided to choose whatever that I happen to browse to, and ended in the ostrich section.

Oh, I digressed.

I was saying my attention span is really short, as seen in the fact that I can be putting in effort for a minute, then the next minute I am already doodling crap.

My drawing was fine except the last few lines that I drew, which by then I lost concentration. CK thought I began with that few wrong strokes, and commended that other sections of the drawings.

I've got a classmate whom cannot draw 3d objects, thus making it very difficult for her to draw the animal in the way CK wants. I think this classmate is probably stronger in hands on like what CK suggested, but I feel bad for her that she is trying so hard but her drawing really cannot make the low standard that CK set.


Having said that, I must thank my secondary school art teacher again. The foundation she built in me allowed me to pick up drawing techniques quite easily. If I ever made it to be an art teacher, I definitely would teach my students the way she taught me.

We would be doing a trial sculpture next wk. I'm tentatively choosing a fox as my subject. But I am thinking of doing a crab instead, because it meant more to me.

Hmmm.. That means I have to do drawings of crabs this wkend. =) Drawing is fun!