End of June 2008, end of the first year of model drawing. The art critic's view and advice.
Every year a wellknown art critic visits our school and judges work that we select for him.
He's a inspiring speaker, who connects your work with art history. Listening to his stories and viewpoints is pure fun. But he's also on honest man when giving critisism. A lot of collegue students were noticed as too conservativ in their drawing, just trying to draw the model as correct as possible. After hearing this, a few collegues even didn't want to show their work anymore. Afraid for some critisism ? That's why he's here, isn't he ?
Me, myself, was judged pretty well. I didn't expect this. :-) I thought he would say that my drawings weren't mature enough, or something like that. The judgement went like this (after he had a long look on my drawings) : "you must be a heady, stubborn guy. You put your lines on the paper very strong, as nobody may doubt about them". The ones in ink he almost found them like linos. But it wasn't meant as big citisism. The things he would like me to change next year :
"try to work on bigger scale, try to leave the strong lines, try to use colour sometimes.
But it won't be as easy as you perhaps think."