How important was Drawing to your course of study?
drawing was one of the reasons I went back to school (full-time and so late in life)
The Course I Did
i graduate this spring with an AS in art, so it was a mixed bag of courses with a slight concentration in computer graphics
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
while the instruction was EXCELLENT! (it really was) there was an amazing disconnect from reality. I work as a commercial artist and while I would have an epiphany every five minutes in class as I learned how to improve my work and also get it done faster, better, stronger :)
but the critiques in class did not match real world critiques... all the students would do is make an attempt to bash other peoples work... so what I started doing is defending peoples work, it became my mission that I would find the strength in each piece...
my favorite professors were the ones that were actual working artists and not just professors that only taught... some artists would just lecture most of the class and I learned more from that then the professors who ran their course like a crafts workshop.
Lessons Learned
- art history - live it learn it
- principles and elements of design, which I actually used pretty well prior to going to school without even realizing it
- I learned how to develop my style and become more of an artist and less of a professional
- I look at the world a little differently now, as I walk around I see line and shape and color... art... where previously all I saw was stop signs and street lights and buildings (if I even bothered to notice them at all)...
- did i mention art history? it provides tremendous inspiration to my works...
