After reading the list from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, I feel that the easiest thing for me to include will be drawing from observation of nature. For some reason drawing nature such as flowers and trees is much easier than than drawing a still life of random objects. I do not know exactly why it is easier for me. It may be because I don't necessarily worry about proportions with nature, but when I am drawing a still life I am so worried about getting the proportions and placement perfect. I guess you can say I am a perfectionist because if something is off I have to fix it or it will continue to bother me until I fix it. For myself personally, drawing from a still life is very difficult. Every time I draw a still life I get the proportions wrong. I have not practiced drawing from them enough that I have to continuously look back and forth from my paper to the still life. The one thing that surprised me from the list is that it recommends that high school students have nude figuring drawing in their portfolio. I know that in college nude figure drawing is common, but i didn't expect that it was recommended for a high school portfolio.
In my portfolio, I plan to put a good amount of photography in it because I am thinking about majoring or minoring in photography in college.This year I would like to really explore with collage projects. I have done a few collage projects in the past and they have been some of my favorite and most interesting projects other than my photography. For college, I am actually applying to FAA, or the College of Fine and Applied Arts at University of Illinois in Champaign. I am applying to the priority filing period, so I have to apply before November 1st, and in my application I have to submit a digital portfolio of ten pieces. I am very nervous, but hopefully I will be accepted.
I agree with you that drawing from still life
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I too get proportions off and whenever something is off I
get frustrated and keep working on it. Although I think that
maybe we don't like drawing from still life because we don't
practice enough. So maybe if we choose a medium or type
of picture such as a still life more often, then we will get better
and actually start liking to do them.
I think you should relax and have more fun with art, it doesn't have to be 'perfect'! I agree with drawing nature and everything, i love it so much! I think it's cool that you have an idea of what you want to do and where you want to go, that's great! I also like that you are so into photography:)
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think it is about a still life that makes you so tense and about a natural composition that is less stressful for you? They both are made up of objects that need to relate proportionally. Nicely written Jill.
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