Final post: Reflection

    This experience with drawing was a great thing for me. Around the time this project was signed, I found that I was getting pretty sick of the monotony of school and how I lack motivation for many of the assignments I receive. However, when I received news that we were doing a project that was essentially just doing whatever we wanted and sharing our experiences with peers, I was interested. This project is one of the most well-designed assignments I've seen from school. Hands down. It was super fun to just spend some time each week getting a little better at drawing, even if I'm still not the best artist in the world.

    I think my biggest improvement in drawing has been simply having a much better understanding of it now. As I've spoken about before, the whole process of drawing a face was a lot more complex than I imagined. I now understand more about why artists do things the way they do and what makes certain things easier or harder to draw. All this about me knowing more isn't to say I haven't improved in my actual skill though, because I absolutely have. A side-by-side comparison of the drawings I've made over the course of this project so legitimate improvement as time has gone on. After each new week, I had a greater understanding of drawing and how to utilize my strengths to create a better piece of art with each week. This process of improvement was slow and sometimes almost tedious, though it was a humbling experience. I learned a good deal about patience and taking things slow throughout this. Sometimes, I found improvement hard to see in my work because of how slow that improvement could be. In retrospect, I absolutely have improved and I'm very proud of the progress that I have made.

    Despite all of this, I still have many improvements to make. I need to get better at drawing people's faces from a source of reference rather than my imagination. I need to get better at certain fine details in drawings like ears. (For whatever reason, drawing ears just seems to be one of the most difficult things in the world to me.) I also could benefit from getting started on certain techniques like shading. How long will it take to make sufficient progress in any of these things? Your guess is as good as mine. But as I mentioned before, slow progress can make all the difference in the world.