Final Post.

Link to flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanavanessajang/sets/

This semester went by so fast. When I first showed up to the Life Drawing class, I thought I knew how to draw people accurately. But I was wrong, I didn't. Amy encouraged us by saying, "everyone has different styles to begin with."  I have learned so much (including that what I thought of my drawing skills was wrong) throughout this semester. I enjoyed Life Drawing as a whole, especially the gesture drawings. Drawing fast during our gesture drawings came natural to me, and seeing and drawing at the same time is something I have always enjoyed doing. But when it came to sitting down and drawing for hours, I struggled. I couldn’t keep my focus and always finished earlier than others. I have learned to take my time to do a quick gesture sketch and then go on to a bigger drawing and work on detailing it. The first couple of months of the semester was about seeing the figure as a whole. Then we went into putting on the muscles on our manikens, and drawing the muscles in our drawings. Manikens and muscle studies were great tools to help me visualize. Once we laid on a muscle or two, we would go on and try drawing them in when we were drawing our models. It was so hard to see at first, but as the time went by and practiced more, it came natural to me. When we started studying our cranium, it was so confusing because the cranium seemed so much bigger than it was to me. And in my final self-portrait, I drew my cranium a lot bigger than it seemed just because I thought it had to be. But it ended up being way too big where I looked like an alien. I guess I still don’t fully understand about the proportion relation between the cranium and the face. Like I said in class, “I wish I had a more dynamic looking face. Being an Asian, my facial lines are very subtle and gentle, it’s really hard to see the different planes.” However, I do understand the many different contours of the face, mostly because I've always enjoyed drawing different parts of the face. My final self-portrait drawing actually looked like me.

This Life Drawing course helped me to be more attentive to the details. It was so interesting to learn that showing different planes and having different line variations help making things look more realistic in terms of being 3d. I hope to work with designing many different products that will be interesting and practical. “Form and function are one.” With the curvature of the body, I believe that seeing the underlines of the body structure and learning about how each muscle works in our body have helped me gain more understanding to how to design things in life. Breaking down the lines into simple forms, then building it up with details.

May 8, 2011

It was a full week with full of long head drawings. Although we did some gesture drawings of Rob on Friday, our main focus was on the head. Now that we have done some skull drawings, it was time for us to apply what we have seen in real life drawings. I drew Rob on Monday and Annie on Wednesday. I'm not done with Annie's face and she is coming in on Monday again to pose for us. I really enjoyed drawing the head especially after all those lectures and practices of the facial features. It was surprisingly very easy for me to spend the whole class period to work on these drawings. Rob and Annie both have very nicely refined features so it wasn't too hard to find the contour lines. I had a skull right next to me to compare the shape of the cranium...and I had to fix Rob's head a couple times to get it to the right size...When Amy fixed it for me, I questioned her and said "but isn't his head turned enough to the side to not see that much of it?" I was so surprised to find out that our craniums are way, way larger than I thought. It looked funny at first but when I came back to my drawing after the break, it looked right proportionately. I went for a complete profile view instead of the 3/4 profile view for Annie's head, mostly because there wasn't any other spot for me to stand and draw to have a better view. I started with sketching the skull first, and added Annie's feature to it. It took me about half an hour to get to this far, when Rob's head took me 3 tried to get it right. Annie's chin looks a bit weird but I'll have time to fix it with her modeling on Monday, so I'm not too worried. 

When we went into the gesture drawings again on Friday, I was so lost. It was horrible. I had the most boring, straight on angle ever. No foreshortened view of anything. So I "finished" it until Amy called my name to look over my manikin and ended up working on my muscles until the class was over after that. Amy introduced our final project: Self Portrait. We have to draw ourselves while looking at ourselves in the mirror. and I'm actually really excited to draw myself! I mean, I look in the mirror all the time, and I know what my face looks like. It's going to be fun to explore my facial features in a total different way.

May 1, 2011

 We only had class on Wednesday and Friday. It was kind of a bummer to sit in class and draw because the weather was so nice this week! I got distracted every time i looked up. And this is why:

We moved on to face from drawing the body parts. Jessica was my partner and these drawings are of her. We worked on the nose and eyes on Wednesday. Amy told us to seperate the bottom plane form the top plane. Nothing is a flat shape, they all have different spotting space. She also told us to break up the lines. always. I thought nose would be easier to draw with all of the instructions she gave us, but it was hard. Maybe it was because I was trying to use the whole page rather than drawing small multiple noses on one page. Jessica's nose looked distorted. On a brighter note, her eyes were super easy to draw. I've always enjoyed drawing eyes, but after having Amy go through the steps of drawing them, it became a lot easier than before. I tried to emphasize on how there are three planes on our upper eyelid, two planes on our lower lid.


Ear was the most difficult one to draw. all the contour lines, where they lay back to back were so hard to see..yet when Amy helps me see them I'm like, "That was easy," or "That makes sense." I think I just need to keep drawing them until I get used to those crazy changing contour lines.

Drawing lips was always hard because lips are part of the skin, as in there isn't really a fine line between skin and lips. It was fun to play with where the contour lines take place with the lips, especially the bottom one going into the chin muscle. such gentle, subtle lines but very important to have in order to tell how the face is shaped. It's been an exciting, learning week for me. I feel a bit embarrassed for thinking that this week was going to be easy. Now that we really got to learn about the muscles and the importance of contour lines, I'm not going to be able to get away with my "old" drawing skills. 

April 24, 2011

profile view of a skull

EASTER! It's the most happiest time of the year...yet it's been such a stressful week. I wanted to get away from school asap and just rest and not think about anything over the weekend. But.....I was stuck at the airport for 2 hours waiting for the stupid bus that goes to Des Moines, IA. I was planning on visiting my aunt in Iowa to help her with her clothing business, but my main reason was to get away so I can recover from this burnout. My aunt ended up coming all the way to Minnesota to pick me up the next day after going home (Woodbury) in a cab after a long wait at the airport that night. It was raining, which made the situation that much more depressing. Although it had many downs starting from the the late start to my weekend to conversations I never wanted to have, my weekend in Iowa ended up being an amazing weekend...just relaxing and hanging out with my aunt. Easter sunday. We went to church, everyone was so welcoming. I love being the center of attention. Now I'm sounding like a snob. haha but I hate it at the same time. I always have to be careful of my words and actions because so many eyes are watching. I'm used to it, though. We had a little bible study/devotional time with a small group of young adults after the service. We talked about the past week and what we can do to make better choices for next week. I, of course, talked about how uncertain my transferring situation was because that's been the only thing on my mind lately..and someone gave me advice to just stop, and ask God for peace in my heart. We, Christians, have peace. It's a gift from God. How? We know we're going to heaven no matter what happens. Whether we die today, tomorrow or not for a long time, we have heaven to look forward to. I realized that I just need to stay calm and give everything to God. He is in charge, He is the one that has everything planned out for me. I just need to ask Him to give me wisdom so I can differentiate between what I want and what He wants. This advice helped me stay present, awake and not worry about what's going to happen in the future.

It was interesting to learn that our face part is only 1/3 of the skull. It was really weird at first to draw the skull. I can't decide if I like it or not because I always seem to draw the cranium a lot smaller than is. Amy had to fix it for me every time she walked by. I have only drawn the profile view so I am scared to start on the other views. I feel that the frontal view is going to be very difficult to draw especially the contour lines. I've had so much trouble with them, because it's so hard for me to see which way the contour lines go (inward or outward). I'm not really excited to start on them, but hopefully after drawing both the frontal and 3/4 of the frontal view, I'll be able to tell the direction of the contour lines better.

April 17, 2011

I've been working on this post since the 17th, I swear. It was just in my editing folder until now.

We have finally started working on our hands! exciting! I am not exactly sure of why, but I have this huge obsession with hands. Whenever it comes down to drawing what I want, I've always included hands in my work. But weirdly enough, I've never drawn skeleton hands. We had to draw one of a skeleton and another of a real hand. Well, on Monday, we focused mostly on the arms and tried to draw the muscles in by just looking at our model, Annie. Here's a picture of a long-drawing from Monday.

It's REALLY hard for me to see the muscles underneath, so I got some help from Amy this time. I realized that the manikins we've been working on can be a huge help to see the muscles, and I plan to study them and kind of memorize where they lie and overlap so I can picture that when I have to draw from just looking at Annie.

Back to the hands. I started with the skeleton one and it helped a lot as to how to draw the real hand. It was pretty much just adding muscles and skin to the skeleton hand. We had the weekend to draw these hands but I finished them during our class period due to my weekend trip. I'm pretty happy with my drawings. I think most of the drawings I finished in class are pretty good proportionately, but still so much to work on and fix.

April 10, 2011

50 minute drawing

Another late post...I need to really step up on my game and finish these postings on time. I've been thinking about how this semester has flew by so quickly. I swear, time goes by faster and faster each year. My mom used to say this all the time when I was just a little girl, and of course, I didn't understand what she meant then. Time passed by so slowly when I was little.. People perceive time as a fraction of their life. for a 5 year old, 5 years is a lifetime. for a 50 year old, 5 years is only a blink of an eye. I've always thought its because when we are younger, we tend to be much more in the moment- really absorbing what is going on around us. As we age, we sometimes tend to lose this, always thinking of yesterday or tomorrow, multitasking, and generally not really paying attention. We've been drawing long drawings (50 minutes to 2 hours) lately, and they have been making me lose focus and sometimes fall asleep. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy drawing. If I could draw all day long, I would. It's just that lately, I've been feeling so tired and thinking a lot about useless things..okay, not useless, but definitely something I don't need to think about while drawing. I'll try to keep my focus on what I need to do to improve my drawing skills. I do believe I am doing a lot better with weird perspective drawings. I tried to take Amy's advice and work on different line variations. I wasn't really sure what she meant, but just made the parts (lines) that are closer to me darker. I have attached a picture from one of our long drawings and just wanted to add that I really enjoyed drawing from that angle.

And here's a poem that I found, thought some people might enjoy it.

A Thought Suggested By The New Year 
by Thomas Campbell (1837)

The more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages:
A day to childhood seems like a year,
And years like passing ages.

The gladsome current of our youth,
Ere passions yet disorders,
Steals, lingering like a river smooth,
Along its grassy borders.

But as the care-worn cheek grows wan,
And sorrow's shafts fly thicker,
Ye stars, that measure life to man,
Why seem your courses quicker?

When joys have lost their bloom and breath,
And life itself is vapid,
Why, as we reach the Falls of death,
Feel we its tide more rapid?

It may be strange-yet who would change
Time's course to slower speeding;
When one by one our friends have gone,
And left our bosoms bleeding?

Heaven gives our years of fading strength
Indemnifying fleetness;
And those of youth, a seeming length,
Proportioned to their sweetness.

April 3, 2011

long drawing: I really enjoyed drawing from this angle. I love how her egg and pelvis looks very well defined from this angle. 

Different environments and different people surround us all the time. Sensory adaptation diminishes our sensitivity and helps us adapt to the new environment. Sensory adaptation is our diminished sensitivity to constant or routine odors, sounds, and touches. It focuses our attention on informative changes in our environment. We experience many different sensory adaptations every day. For example, our eyes adapting to changes in light, our bodies adapting to changes in air temperature or water temperature, and our ears adapting to changes in loudness of noise. It was very interesting to learn that our eyes are always moving, whether we notice them moving or not. They flit from one spot to another enough to guarantee that stimulation on the eyes’ receptors continually changes. Our sensitivity to changing stimulation helps explaining us being able to adapt to different situations so quickly, that we don’t even notice the changes. This kind of goes with how I've been feeling about Life Drawing. As we went more and more into drawing in different muscles each day, I learned to draw them more quickly and accurately each day, adapting to drawing in different, detailed muscles at different limited times. This week has been a really short week for me. It went by so quickly, especially with no class on Friday. We've worked on our arm  muscles on our manikins and tried to draw them in in our 30 sec drawings to 50 min drawings. It didn't take me that long to familiarize myself to draw the full figure with extra detail in the arms. BUT It was very difficult to follow the book when putting the clay muscles on the manikins (Amy had to fix most of the muscles for me haha), but I enjoyed it, mostly just because I'm familiar with the arm muscles more than any other muscles in our body. I apologize for not posting this 'last week's post' so late..I'll try to keep up from now on. 

:)

FULL FIGURE! FINALLY! I've enjoyed every minute, second of our drawing time in life drawing. It's been going by ridiculously fast. I never thought I would enjoy drawing figures this much! We started drawing the full figure starting with the 30 second ones. My first thoughts were, "We only have 30 sec to draw the whole figure?" but when she demonstrated in front of us, I kind of got what we were supposed to do. I love when she draws for us, it's so much easier for me to draw after seeing her draw. the way she stands/sits, the way she holds the vine charcoal, the way she moves her whole body when she draws... so much to learn! I was telling one of the girls from our class about just how much I've enjoyed drawing the whole figure, finally! and she told me that she didn't enjoy it very much and that she liked drawing parts of the body better. It was interesting to see that other people enjoy drawing the complete opposite things than me. The muscles we've been working with this week's been fun, too. Since we're working on the muscles that are actually (somewhat) visible, it's a lot easier for me to put them on my model. Anyway, with the whole snow day thing on Wednesday, it's been a pretty slow, relaxing week. I don't think it should have been.... but! at least my mind got to rest a bit. This week is going to be crazy busy. I already have midterms coming up! and I want to submit some work to the Best of Design Show.. crossing my fingers I would get the application done and that some of my work will get accepted! :P
Here are some pictures of my work this week! I hope everyone has a good rest of the week :)

Feet.

I'm a little behind on my postings due to break and such. First of all, my spring break was amazing for the fact that I got to go to Vegas! It could have been better..I could have made it a better, I should have made it better. But I don't want to sit here and beat myself all day long by thinking of all the could have's and should have's. I’ll move on and make a good use of my time by actually talking about what’s been going on with drawing different body parts.

We started focusing on the legs more last week. Feet are such difficult things to draw! It is so hard for me to find different planes and figure out the right direction of the contour lines. Although Annie is such a great model, she gives us dynamic poses that are difficult to draw and I like challenges, so I always enjoy her interesting poses, drawing feet....is.....so.....boring! I got bored of all of our long (way too long) feet drawings right away. Personally, I don't think feet are attractive at all, and they are the dirtiest out of all the other body parts (I think). I just didn't have any desire to sit down and draw feet for hours and hours, okay, not hours, but 30 minute drawings of just...feet? Come on. Then I thought, maybe I don't enjoy drawing them as much as I like drawing other body parts because I'm not the greatest at it. Maybe I'll start to like drawing them once I get better at it..which means, I’ll have to practice, practice, practice! extra hard. I have attached my feet drawings above (from last week) and they look so awkward! I hope to see the improvements as the second half of the semester goes on. 

What Are You Passionate About?

I'm passionate about Christ. I want to glorify Him in everything I do.
I'm passionate about making everyone happy. Seeing them smile gives me satisfaction.
I'm passionate about doing the best I can in any given situation.
I'm passionate about my impression on others. 
I'm passionate about self-confidence - being well-dressed. 
I'm passionate about each day...being alive! and living everyday to the fullest.
I'm passionate about communicating my thoughts effectively with others.
I'm passionate about education, learning new things everyday.
I'm passionate about myself, so that I enable myself to be passionate about things in life - Love yourself.
I'm passionate about ....PASSION.

"Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?" 

the halfway point of a term

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanavanessajang/sets/

Maniken - Posterior

This first half of the semester definitely went by fast. It has been a crazy, yet incredible journey. I have learned so many things that I normally either didn't care or didn't know about. I say that I didn't care because when I don't know much information about something, I just say I don't care about those things to not sound stupid for not knowing. I thought I knew what I was doing when I first attended the class until we got into the details of how muscles layer in our bodies. I believe that my drawing skills has gotten a lot better after learning about how the muscles align and layer together. I loved how we broke down into different sections of the body, no more than three muscles at once. It helped us to have a better understanding of each muscle and learn how they collide together, rather than learning everything at once, which could have been a really hard task for us. I was having such hard time with the "eggs" and the spine, which led me into having trouble with the frontal line, also. But it became so much easier for me to draw the figure after actually seeing how the muscles overlap inside our bodies, and after our Professor sat down and drew examples for us. I guess I'm more of a visual person. After all, I am an artist. I need to visualize what I'm doing first, then I can nail it. I very much enjoyed drawing the pelvis and thigh muscles in, because drawing in just the ribcage or the egg, and the spine was getting boring for me.   I remember, we had to just draw the model anyway we wanted to. Everyone has a different way of portraying things, and I think It was a great idea for our Professor to develop our drawing skills as we know them, and move further into it by drawing accurate figures. I look forward and desire to learn more and more about how human body is formed and learn how to draw them in my own style as the semester goes on. 

To what extent do you think our lives are shaped by early stimulation, by parents, and by peers? Nature vs. Nurture? This issue has been around for ages and no one has still concluded which of the two has a greater effect on a person. I believe both contribute to a complete personality of a person. I think that parents and peers influence us while we are younger, and we become more of ourselves as we grow older. We try to come up with our own opinions rather than speaking of somebody else's as if they were our thoughts. Our personalities are shaped by the experiences we take on during our lives. Although parents and peers play a big role in our lives, we want to be unique, not like anybody else. I do believe that children are shaped by their parents, because they imprint on the actions of their parents, its safe to say that children are shaped by their parents. And that later when they're in their teen-age years, they follow what their peers do to fit in. Then when people come of age they try to become their own, so-called true self. The nature and nurture has to balance into our lives, it helps kids develop. I personally was influenced by my parents instead of my peers. Its true that they shape the kids at a young age, but that people grow to want to be individuals and not follow everyone else. I'll end my thought by sharing a quote by a famous psychologist Donald Hebb. He is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?"

As far as drawing goes, adding the muscles on our manikins definitely helped my drawing skills by knowing where all the muscles lie and overlap. 

- This is it, Joel. It's gonna be gone soon.

- I know.

- What do we do?

- Just enjoy it....

愛人 (A Lover)

愛人.

사랑(애)

사람(인)

생각하면 할수록 참 매력있는 단어다.

愛= 기(旡,목메다)+심(心,마음)+치(夂, 뒤져 오다)

애(愛)자는 은혜와 사랑을 받아 마음이 메어 차마 발걸음이 떨어지지 않아 뒤쳐져 걷는 모습을 형상화한 글자라고 한다.

이런 뜻을 가진 애(愛)자에 사람 인(人)자를 합해 만들어진 단어가 애인(愛人).

애인은 ‘남을 사랑 하다’와 ‘사랑하는 사람’ 등의 뜻으로 알려져 쓰이지만,

그 속에 담긴 깊은 의미는 '사랑을 베풀어 남의 마음을 감동시키는 사람’이라고 풀이할 수 있다.

愛人.. 사랑을 베풀어 남의 마음을 감동시키는 사람.

난 愛人.

Follow Your Heart. Do What You Love.

To do something well you have to like it. To do something that's worth your time, you have to love it. It's not as easy as it sounds, doing what you love is a lot more complicated than you think. Even figuring out what you love is a hard task. As for me, I have hard times trying to figure out what's best for me. Sometimes, I get confused when people tell me their opinion and tell me that they're right and I should think that way too. Then I get persuaded and start thinking, "Oh, that makes sense," and start to think like them when I should be creating my own opinion to things. And sometimes I feel like I need to follow everyone else's heart in order to "fit in," when it should be the opposite. So I have decided to "Follow My Heart." Cliche? It's a simple statement, yet so complicated. Most of us struggle with this--forming an opinion, following our own heart. There are so many ideas that float around in my head, topics that are debated, and controversial issues that are discussed. I need to have a solid basis for my opinion on these topics, my very own voice of opinion in order to follow my heart, my dreams. It gets so confusing when it comes to figuring out what it is that I absolutely love. I'm still learning, figuring out what it is that keeps me alive. Then I came across this encouraging message I got from a good friend of mine a couple of weeks ago when I was trying to decide whether I wanted to transfer or not: "I know that you will make the right decision for yourself no matter what. Some people view following your heart as a weakness but I see it as a strength to follow something that is so uncertain. I love you. Sweet dreams." I haven't deleted this message, and I don't plan to. I look at it time to time when I'm discouraged, and it gives me comfort, and courage to get back up again and keep following something that is so unsure.. After all, "everything happens for a reason."

Now I'll turn my head to Life Drawing.. I had an incredibly hard time drawing a male model on Friday. It was really hard for me to see the "egg" and other muscles. I find it easier to draw a female than a male model. This is definitely a challenge for me. They seem to look a lot different than the ones of the female model's. I feel that I draw women better than I draw men, because I'm more familiar with the female body, my own body. I think a female form is a far more interesting subject because of the curvy, flowy outer lines. 

FEMALE

MALE

Footprints...

"I wish I can be someone that leaves footprints in your heart. No matter how many tidal waves come along, no matter how many times the water crash on and on.. that I'll always be a footprint that stays there."

Love and Understanding

Why is it that I can't seem to be comfortable sharing my feelings? I have thought about this for a very long time. I'm the type of person who can't and doesn't like saying 'no' for an answer. I have always struggled with this problem. I would always end up doing what I normally don't like to do, just because I couldn't say 'no.' I'm also very indecisive, which doesn't help. If I weren't so indecisive and knew what I want right away, I wouldn't have to go through the pain of doing what I don't like to do. I was about to go to bed after a long skype conversation with  a very good friend of mine, who I got into an argument with, but wanted to think this over-why is it that we don't agree on things and we get into fights? we are best friends, we know about each other more than anyone else in the world. We should be able to understand each other no matter what. It's then I thought of this quote: "It's because we don't understand each other that we can talk, have conversations, get to know each other, and it's because we can't understand each other that we have to be sensitive to each other's needs and wishes. Being understanding and being in love are not necessarily on the same level, they are not the same. You don't love them just because you understand them. Love is Not Understanding. Another life lesson." We're not going to agree on everything. We're not going to be able to understand each other all the time, but that doesn't mean we don't love each other. We're just two different people, there's nothing wrong with that. With this affirmation, I have gained courage to speak my thoughts freely. Then I came across another question: Why is it that I can't speak my mind, my feelings to my very best friend? Why does my mind go black when I'm about to reason my thoughts? I think it has to do with my confidence level. All I can do is to be more confident, believe that what I say is always right. Everyone has their own thoughts and opinions, nobody can say that I'm wrong. But I tend to think about the consequences before I act, and get scared before even I set my foot into the situation..which could be a good thing but then everything would be planned accordingly, which is not fun. Not spontaneous at all. I would hate to be a control freak, I'd rather be the spontaneous one. As George Gershwin has once said, "Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise," I just need some time and practice. I feel very sorry because I feel like I'm always the one not answering/sharing my feelings with my friend and he always shares his. We perceive things differently, I just hope that he can be patient with me as I move onto my practicing stage.

contour lines

every contour line should be different.

I swear, I'm really good at focusing.

I'm really good at focusing on things. I just need to learn to focus on the right things, at the right time. I need to let my subconscious mind know what's important. 

"What you focus on, you get more of." 

I also need to work on not giving up. the moment I say, “I can't do this," my mind stops looking for a solution. But if I don't give up and keep looking for a way out, even when I'm in a disastrous situation, I start to notice the opportunities appear. And there are a lot more opportunities out there than you think. I just need to know how to look, how to focus on the right things.

Emotionally Handicapped

This past week, I was recently reminded how important yet how hard it is to express your thoughts and feelings. Feelings and thoughts are different, but also are one at the same time. Feelings are emotions, opinions, and sensations, while thoughts are beliefs, reflections, and convictions. We react to different events with both thoughts and feelings. But you can't tell anyone what is in your purse if we don't know what is in there yourself. In the same way, you have to figure our what feelings and thoughts you have before you can share them with anyone. I was having such difficult times sharing my own thoughts. I do have strong beliefs, convictions but when it comes to explaining why I believe in those ideas, I fall apart. If I'm not expressing the real 'me,' and others aren't expressing the real 'them,' then who are we? Who are we talking to? Fake reflections, the cause of all the confusion. Then I started to relate this idea to my art work, and thought about how I express my feelings through brushes and charcoals. It was then I realized that I don't let myself go when I paint or draw. I get too hung up on the small details, get frustrated and give up. I needed to let my ideas flow naturally, give myself permission to make mistakes, and speak my feelings. Speaking your feelings is not a simple thing. The reality is that due to this society, we're mostly emotionally handicapped. We're scared to be judged. This issue is something I personally need to work on on daily basis. I hope this inspires people to connect and share in a deeper way with those we love by really thinking about how they really feel.

 
      letting myself go...

Big Me :)

Self Portrait: Passion for Piano

Drawing II
pastels
33x44in

My name is Hana Jang and I am an Industrial design major student at University of Wisconsin - Stout. I am an outgoing, friendly person who loves to talk to new people and get to know them. I try to have a positive attitude and be optimistic. I like trying new things and taking risks because I know that the key to success is taking a big step and not being afraid to take a risk with the possibility of failure. I became addicted to art as soon as I saw the world of the Hyper Realists. The way they were able to take mediums that were stagnant and sculpt them into works or life and movement, took my breath away. However, I always knew that under the aesthetics of these works of arts were the structures that held the pieces together. This notion of structure and construction soon reared its head in a completely new direction, a direction that made me change the way I view art and it built my interests. I now view the space as a cohesive unit that makes up the integrity of the piece. This is where my heart lies. So to be an innovator in the world, I have to learn to design the world. I want to start that by learning about figures, myself first, learn how everything lies and connects together. I know I will be making a lot of mistakes but as a beginner, I want to learn from those mistakes and I also desire to learn from the other classmates by sharing constructive thoughts. I don't want to be afraid of taking risks to make the best out of this class. As Malcolm Forbes, a publisher of Forbes Magazine, says, “The people who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.” I feel that education has no set limits and I want to continue on this expedition towards my career starting from this Life Drawing Class.