This was intended to be a line exercise only, which was mostly accomplished. However, my lines to begin with were very trademark- light, breathy, and lots of them. I needed to fix up the neglected areas like the bottom of the shirt and those accursed shoes. The figure seemed to match up proportion wise, so I didn't really have much work besides making my lines darker and bolder and increasing the contrast. I added a few different layers of value- line only, however, and added depth to the hair. The Converse gods finally decided to smile on me and I finished a passable pair- better than the sketchy stubs in the first picture. Overall, I am pleased by the changes I made because they matured the drawing.
"CREATIVITY- having original ideas that have value" You can never truly gage creativity in a block structure. School systems are very organized and predictable. One thing flows into the next, everything is very systematic. But the monotony of this becomes boring. Every class, another worksheet, every week a new unit, the teacher using the same words and making the same motions every class period. This is why art is important, to take a true measure of creative skills in an unconventional way.
Not everyone learns in the same fashion, but we are all victims to the block method, a “system that was designed and conceived for a different age,” as says Sir Ken Robinson. Art can break that mold by challenging students every day to learn a new skill or fix a problem. You don’t know how to paint? Well listen up, because you are going to learn how. Art is important because you are given the baseline and must create your own work, which forces creativity. There is no place in the workforce for people who are afraid to step out of the box. I personally have more success when drawing is involved. For example, in a skills assessment in Geometry, we had to take Airplane A and Plane B, which were flying behind each other, and making Plane B take two turns, set it parallel to Plane A. This was easier for me to visualize since I whipped out a sheet of paper and sketched it out. The ease of this coming to me was so exciting; I volunteered to draw it out on the board, which almost never happens. Art is essential to those who wish to be successful. Even though most people think the objective of art is to be able to render something in a realistic fashion, it is not. Art is the question of I have given you this, now what will you do? It expands the mind to be curious and ask question about the world. It inspires students to embrace the differences and be non-traditional. Art is inspiring the new generation to be bold and unconventional, to be the masters of their own creativity.
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