The lecture and workshop enabled me to understand why I became so uncomfortable with art. I remember becoming disillusioned when I wasn’t able to draw “real” pictures. Till today, I believe that m art is bad and that I’m unable to draw. I guess this bows down to how my art work was graded when I was in primary and secondary school. My drawings were always given a “C” grade, and I never had high hopes of getting any “A” grade drawings. To me, I was just thankful that Art wasn’t “important” and it wouldn’t count toward an overall academic grade.
In this week’s workshop, we learned how to draw a portrait. I was blown away. Robyn scaffolded the class very well. I felt very “safe” and guided as I started drawing out facial positions of a human face. I never knew that the eyeballs aligned the mouth, nor observed that our ears bridged the sides of our eyes! I loved how I can actually link Math (proportions and fractions) to portrait drawing!
Kim’s better attempt at drawing me.
I also want to remember Wilson’s 7 Graphic Principles – Why children’s drawings look the way they do. (My little comments in italics).
1. Simplicity Principle – Stick figures
2. Perpendicular Principle – defy laws of gravity / birds eye view
3. Territorial Imperative Principle – drawings don’t touch or overlap
4. Fill-the-format Principle –fill in entire page
5. Conservative ad Multiple Application Principle – use same symbol over and over again
6. Draw everything Principle – draws both interior and exterior
7. Plastic Principle – “I” am most important
I found this site extremely useful in explaining in greater detail Wilson’s 7 principles!
