Getting the ball rolling.

Hello, Welcome to my blog. As you can probably tell, my name is Stephen; I am a sophomore in UW-Stout’s Multi-Media Design Major. I have only been in life drawing one for one week now. However, I can already tell that this course will help me immensely when drawing people in the future. I have only just started on my drawing experience and I have a long way to go in order for me to consider myself good at it.

While I feel this will be a good skill to have as I go forward with my life, I am hoping of using my degree to be a web designer as a profession. Speaking of degrees, my art skills are still quite fresh in the making. I have not had very much previous experience with drawing or other types of art form. This is mainly because my high school didn’t offer many art classes, and when they were offered they were considered classes that were meant to easy a semester load, instead of a truly serious class. Therefore, I didn’t really get serious about art until my senior year of high school, and by then a lot of the people that were going into my type of field were already fairly proficient at general art skills.

A Photo I took last Semester.

 

As I have studied art at Stout I have learned certain types of design that I enjoy more than others, one of these preferences is photography. Last semester I was finally able to get into Exploring Photography I, a class that I should have been able to get into a full year ago, and it was a blast. Even though I have been kept busy over the winter break and kicking things off to a running, face-planting start of the semester, I still enjoy taking out my camera and taking a picture here and there. Other than that I had an enjoyable experience in my web design one course. I took that course over the summer and learned the hard way that online classes in something that you are not even partially knowledgeable about has a learning curve about as steep as scaling Bowman Hall. Even though there were some rough patches I still pulled through, and not deterred from web design. I have also found that drawing is more pleasurable with practice, so that my drawings don’t totally look like the scribbling of a gifted 5 year-old. I feel I have improved greatly in fact from drawing I to drawing II.

Drawing I

Drawing II

           That about sums up my art experience and my interests in the field, though I hope to only get better in drawing so I enjoy it more, getting the ball rolling is always the hardest part I thought. Thanks for reading all of this, if you have even gotten this far, and keep checking back as I update this blog throughout my life drawing I experience.

-Stephen