Sorsha Akai
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"Draw what you see" ....
All my life and in every art class I've ever taken, that's what the teacher always tells us. "Well, just draw what you see." ...and I'm like duh! that's what I'm trying to do! It took me years to figure out just exactly what they were talking about, because no one ever explained it, they just told me to draw what I see. I thought that was the point, lol!
Anyway, after so many years of being confused over such an abstract concept, my AP Art teacher (Mr. Ratajkowski) in high school finally explained it in a way that made a light bulb click on in my head.
His definition of "Draw what you see", was this: Say you're walking home alone one night, and it's dark and quiet until you hear a noise coming from the bushes or something. You look back in the direction of the noise to see what it was, and you see two red gleaming eyes staring back out at you. Your adrenaline starts pumping, and you start to run home, rather than walk. You get back home all panicked and shaky, but little do you know that those "eyes" were just an empty coke can that someone had thrown into the bushes, and the light just so happened to hit it @ the right spot.
"DING!" There it was. I had been perceiving things like this my whole entire life, and I had never thought of it that way! It's not to draw what "you" your physical self sees in the tangible, physical world, it's to draw what "you" your soul, your imagination sees. It's exactly like when it's a nice day out, and you're outside looking up @ the clouds and making shapes out of them. You don't see clouds, you see a bunny rabbit, or an airplane, or a guy riding a unicorn with wheels, I don't know. But that's it.
Ever since then, I have taken that advice to heart, and applied it to my artwork. It makes so much sense now! I even drew a picture of my purse strap coiled up on the floor, because it looked like a cute little devil-head! 
I just thought I'd share that with all of you, because it's the best definition I've ever heard of anything!
--- "Make Your Dreams Out of Paper Mache." - Beck
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2/10/2009, 7:43 pm
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