Done with Photoshop, Drawing Continues
So I finished the photoshop class on Tuesday night. It was an alright class, but I was very much distracted by my neighbor, Dario. I wish I had a photo. So he's this really tall skinny guy, with a big nose, long scraggly ponytail that has horrible blonde highlights, he rocks camo pants, and has the most jacked up teeth i've seen in a while. Not only are they gnarled, they have this bizarre beige-ish green tinge to them - must've been his chainsmoking. He's friendly and harmless. If there was a Beavis and Butthead cartoon in Argentina, he'd be in it. He loves drugs, has had the same girlfriend for 5 years, and became a bartender because he spent so much time at his local bar that they eventually just offered him a job. Well, during class, if he lost track of what was going on (often) he'd mess around with a picture of his girlfriend (who is better looking by leaps and bounds), giving her red eyes, oversized earrings in the shape of marijuana leaves and whatnot. He even went so far as to show this to the teacher basically demonstrating to her what he was actually doing while she was attempting to teach. He was my best buddy those 4 days I spent seated next to him. He'd always buy candy and cookies during the break and we'd share them. He was my homie. My compadre. I'LL MISS YOU DARIO!!!!!
Today was my second art class. The assignment was to add color to our original pencil drawings. The original Degas has pretty muted colors and I remembered more or less how it looked, but my teacher, who is a kindly man but REEKS of stale cigarettes and has dirty nails (if you know me, you know that hands are very important) pretty much had us incorporate colors that weren't necessarily in the originals. Thats fine. What pissed me off was that after being very complimentary about my work he then out of nowhere says "here, let me do this" and moves into my seat and proceeds to draw features into a nearly featureless face. Ugly ones might I add! Originally her eyes are closed and she has no eyebrows. Her mouth was a line sloping down. Her nose was barely distinguishable. Suddenly she has green eyebrows, eyes that are open and bright blue, a prominent nose and a big smiling mouth. WTF!?!!?!?!!!??!!?! Her face is a joke now. She looks like a clown. Oh, and he colored her hair so much it looked like a helmet. He said, "there now, doesn't it just "pop"??" yeah. it pops alright. naturally, after he left I did some erasing and shading. The mouth is beyond repair. Luckily these are watercolor pencils so I'll just douse this picture with a hose and see what happens. Here's the colored version of the lady as of right now.
Today was my second art class. The assignment was to add color to our original pencil drawings. The original Degas has pretty muted colors and I remembered more or less how it looked, but my teacher, who is a kindly man but REEKS of stale cigarettes and has dirty nails (if you know me, you know that hands are very important) pretty much had us incorporate colors that weren't necessarily in the originals. Thats fine. What pissed me off was that after being very complimentary about my work he then out of nowhere says "here, let me do this" and moves into my seat and proceeds to draw features into a nearly featureless face. Ugly ones might I add! Originally her eyes are closed and she has no eyebrows. Her mouth was a line sloping down. Her nose was barely distinguishable. Suddenly she has green eyebrows, eyes that are open and bright blue, a prominent nose and a big smiling mouth. WTF!?!!?!?!!!??!!?! Her face is a joke now. She looks like a clown. Oh, and he colored her hair so much it looked like a helmet. He said, "there now, doesn't it just "pop"??" yeah. it pops alright. naturally, after he left I did some erasing and shading. The mouth is beyond repair. Luckily these are watercolor pencils so I'll just douse this picture with a hose and see what happens. Here's the colored version of the lady as of right now.

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Yes - Dario. I wish I knew what bar he worked at. Damn, that would've been hilarious.
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