Yesterday (tuesday) i had a very interesting lesson: Free Hand Drawing. It all got off to a great start when i had to get the train home to get all my drawing kit just managed to get back to uni and run to the lecture just before the lecturer launched into "this isnt like school and its your responsability, i dont care if you dont turn up, ur the one who wont pass etc etc" which is all fair enough and i felt really guilty!

Anyway, we sat down and he basically told us that anyone can draw, anyone. I always seen myself as a bad arts person. I can never do what i want with a pencil but he told us how its all in your head and if we just look at it abstactly and draw what we see then it will look good! So we enbarked on the drawing of some chairs. Strangly he told us to draw the "negative space" aka draw the spaces. Not the object.....If u drew the shapes of the white spaces behind the chair then you should be left with the outline of the actual chair. I hope u understand that with my rubbish explaination! But it was very interesting, i found it very hard at the begining to see the spaces but after a while i was able to atleast see them, mabey not reproduce it though. After a while the spaces started to take on shape, it wasnt perfect and i couldnt draw the insides of the chairs at all but by the was quitely proud of myself though there is much room for improvement!

So to anyone who thinks they are RUBBISH at art then think again!