Your drawing is fabulous! Lots to see! Nicely done!

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It's the third in a series.

The first was a single gourd. The professor put a gourd on the table, had us draw for about 10 minutes, then he moved it. He kept that up for a while, then tagged a student to replace it with a different gourd- every 10 minutes. We kept that up for the rest of the period.

The second was similar to this one, but only moving around the table (no paper rotation) and a much smaller collection of objects.

In all 3 exercises, it is amazing how different everyone's drawings turned out - I doubt anyone would look at two drawings and guess they were of the same object.



ETA: It's been a long time since I've been around teenage males much . . . during the first exercise there was one particularly phallic gourd. Of course one of the teenage males went for that one, posed it in an erect position, then giggled for most of the 10 minutes we were drawing . . . and then made a similarly giggly remark about the life drawing class next door (nude models). I had been thinking of taking that course as another of the 30 studio hours I have to complete - but I'm not sure I want to put up with teenage male behavior around nude models for a semester.

Been a long time since any art classes... I wonder.

So more than 5 decades.

The school I retired from allows me to take up to 6 credits/2 classes per semester, so I'm pursuing a BFA in photography. It's gonna take me about a decade, since I not only have to complete the courses for the major, I have to complete about 60 hours of BFA-specific courses (history and studio, mostly). Ohio lets anyone over 60 audit any class with open seats at any public university - I'm surprised how few people take advantage of the opportunity. (Many states have similar programs.)

But he commented that it felt like he was inside it and everywhere he turned something new popped up, or changed form.

One of those pieces you could gaze into for hours.

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I wasn't sure what to make of it until I read your text. That sounds like a fun class, I like the way it sort of spirals upward.

Very well designed to teach us the basics of drawing. A lot of the class is kind of doing its own thing, but I'm focusing on learning all of the processes and compositional standards - even when I don't necessarily envision ultimately using them in my own art. I figure if I don't learn them, I won't have the option of choosing to use them (or not).