This week’s activities consisted of sketching, trees, drinks, and a contour of my hand holding my drink. Below are my sketches:
The activity was fun once I got into it, but at the beginning, it was frustrating. Having to draw things that I wasn’t interested in drawing made me not enjoy the start of the sketch, but as I got farther in the sketching, I accepted it and began to enjoy my attempts at matching whatever I was looking at.
I think if I practiced, I would be way better. Building up coordination, along with understanding different techniques to create a drawing would help immensely. Even so, I don’t think most of my sketches were awful, but I wasn’t confident in what I was drawing. With more hours of practice, I would gain the skills and the confidence to create better works of art.
As a mechanical Engineering major, sketching could be useful in certain cases. Most work is done on computer programs to make 3d modelling of objects easier, but being able to clearly sketch an idea before beginning work on fully fleshing it out could be helpful. The clearer I could draw, the better my coworkers could understand what I was trying to portray with my simple sketch.
Drawing can be considered a language, but these days it’s not quite a formal one. Egyptian hieroglyphics were drawings, yet they were used like a language. In the same way, modern drawing can be a language, but often how we draw is not formulated as a language would be. Even with that said, drawings can definitely say things that words cannot. Drawings can portray feelings and meanings that wouldn’t be fully described in just one or two words.
Ronald Art110 