Patience as Part of Creating

my art homework due Tuesday, drew this over the weekend

This weekend, I learned something very important: that patience is the key to creating a work that is both impressive and beautiful.  I am in Art 2 here at UC Davis, which is a black and white drawing class.  The course is a requirement for Design majors though a student can choose between Design 14 and Art 2, I chose the art route because I love to paint and draw; however, this class is nothing like what I expected.  It is both challenging and frustrating, yet fulfilling and helpful.  It is so hard because the homework is incredibly time consuming.  I have spent hour upon hour trying to perfect a drawing, getting annoyed and tired but it is teaching me to just push through.  So our homework this weekend was to draw from a black and white photo but triple the size from the photo to your work.  I drew a still shot from the film “Gone With The Wind” and used the grid method for dealing with the tone and shading of the image.  I focused on line and form in each box of the grid, working methodically from left to right, beginning at the top left and ending in the bottom right.  As I look at my finish piece right now, I can say that this is the best drawing I have ever done, and all it took was a method and patience.  I would spend an hour at a time working and then leave to do something else to refresh my mind and body.  I feel like this is a great lesson for designing anything.  You cannot get stressed out and overwhelm yourself, instead, make a plan of action and execute it in a timely but reasonable manner.