"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/27/2017 at 00:26 • Filed to: None
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"Slant6" (slant-6)
07/27/2017 at 00:26 • Filed to: None | 10
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Because who would have thought that Design school would require sketching skills.
I actually didn’t, so I got in 2 years ago with no background in drawing, or any other kind of design. So this summer I’ve been sketching everyday to try and get better. It’s working a little. Don’t have as much time as I’d like between taking 2 classes every day of the week plus work every day, but I’m improving. I can only get better, and I will only get better.
I’m determined. I will be a furniture designer.
Follow me if you like seeing pitiful drawings everyday.
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wafflesnfalafel
> Slant6
07/27/2017 at 00:40 |
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I took a basic sketching class in college and the practice really helped with the photography I was doing - lines, composition, light/shading, etc....
cbell04
> Slant6
07/27/2017 at 01:49 |
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I too sketch almost daily. Except by sketch I mean trace...
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Slant6
07/27/2017 at 06:19 |
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My wife used to teach a drawing class to first-year architecture students. She said teaching them the mechanics of drawing was easy. The biggest problem was keeping them focused for the three-hour class and getting them to complete multi-day assignments.
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Slant6
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/27/2017 at 07:55 |
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Anyone can draw with enough practice. I’ve got technique pretty much down, it’s more just affording yourself the time to get good and not get discouraged. I believe this of any skill. Just take time to learn.
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Slant6
> wafflesnfalafel
07/27/2017 at 08:18 |
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I had a design drawing class but I learned most of my sketching on my own. The class was very ruler and french curve based with a large emphasis on rendering. Lost of forced perspective and what not. While that’s good to know and everything I feel like they skipped a few steps. Just some form building practice would have helped, or at least helped with our confidence. This class is where people decide ID isn’t for them, had about 7 quit after it.
shop-teacher
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/27/2017 at 08:45 |
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I have a bachelors in Architecture (teaching my friends CAD is what convinced me to be a teacher). Can confirm, Architecture students are a squirrelly bunch.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> cbell04
07/27/2017 at 09:07 |
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You’re a good dad.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> Slant6
07/27/2017 at 09:20 |
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“I believe this of any skill.”
I believe this is a common fallacy which just isn’t true. It may come across as elitist, but I firmly believe that we have different skill sets and talents, something rooted in our biology. I came to this conclusion after trying to help my wife pass a statistics class while we were in grad school. We were covering some basic concepts which required abstract thinking. She asked me to draw it for her. They were abstract concepts and defied simplification by drawing. Turns out that she thinks in pictures. When I said rain, she pictured a window with water drops on it. If a concept couldn’t be drawn, she couldn’t get it.
Teaching just reinforced that believe. Some people just couldn’t get what I was trying to teach them. I’m not saying they were stupid, I’m saying that they couldn’t understand the subjects I was teaching. For some reason, the concepts just never sunk in.
While it’s nice to think that anyone can learn anything given enough time and effort, it’s just not true.
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cbell04
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
07/27/2017 at 09:34 |
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Thanks. Its one of my things I like to do because I occasionally work 80 hour weeks and this is about the only contact they get from me besides seeing me look dead in bed during those times:) kinda like “hey guys I’m thinking of you and yes I am alive.”
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Slant6
> TheRealBicycleBuck
07/27/2017 at 09:39 |
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I think with enough time and enough effort you can learn anything. Of course this is a sweeping generalization.
From what I’ve gathered in my limited life experience is that you don’t need to be talented to be good at something.
Maybe a more honest statement would be if you work hard enough you’ll get to where you’re supposed to be. Even if this isn’t entirely true believing in it can only help. Since the only constant in life is death, which our minds refuse to legitimately accept, setting our own artificial constants helps us to do things we couldn’t otherwise.
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> cbell04
07/27/2017 at 11:19 |
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That’s really sweet. I leave early in the morning, but the kids are at least up (usually) before I go. We’re moving to a new home that will come with a 10 minute longer commute, so I’ll need to leave a little early (and they will, too) and I’ll need to help out in the mornings more than I do. My wife only works 30 hours a week, which is great for our family, but because of that, I’ve let her take care of the vast majority of getting the kids ready for school.