Definition of beauty

Thursday was early morning class with Peter for Drawing 101. I am already not excited to be taking drawing but what choice do I have. It didn’t help walking into class and Peter had all the tables pushed against the wall with this massive heap of intertwined chairs in the center of the room. First thoughts were crap what have I gotten myself into. Our assignment was to do a negative space drawing where you draw all the shapes around the objects instead of just doing a representational of the object. Surprisingly I enjoyed this assignment I am much better at just drawing random shapes then drawing something that is suppose to look realistic. That is the tangled mess we had to draw. The other picture is Cailey, Emily, me, and Shannon with our homemade drawing boards loving negative space.

Peter goes around to look at our sketch books to check off that we had done all the required drawing thus far. I am absolutely terrible at drawing. I should probably explain what a blind contour drawing is first so that you can understand the hilarious nature of his comment. A blind contour is to exercise the muscles in your line. You are not allowed to look at your paper but intensely stare at an object and follow the lines. You are to draw the object without looking at your paper but just draw what you see. I still do not understand the significance and my eyes do not feel more trained having done all these activities. So Peter is looking at my book and stops at this one blind contour drawing and says, “Oh this is beautiful. Looking at this makes me want to have us just do blind contours the rest of the semester”. What?? Are you kidding me it looks as though you gave a first grader a pencil and a sketch book. Emily sighs beside me because she absolutely despises blind contours. I am laughing because I thinking that is such crap. I just giggle at the thought of mine and Peter’s definition of beauty. Many of you have mentioned that I should post some of my drawings on the blog and I was adamantly opposed to such an idea. However I will make an exception this once and post my picture to really prove my point. I felt it was only appropriate so you could understand the hilarity of this situation as well.