Haircuts and Drawing Crits

Winter is coming in Boston, and the windy weather is upon us! However, I did sort of the opposite of bundling up this week, I cut off almost all of my hair! It was almost down to my shoulders, which is the longest it’s been for a while, and I needed a change. I try not to be a slave to my hair; I feel like a lot of women let their hair define them and grow it long because that’s what feminine “should” look like (I also am super lazy, and this haircut requires almost no maintenance). Just because long women on TV have super long locks does NOT mean that you have to, ladies! Your hair doesn’t have to define you, but it can be a form of self-epression, much like art. For me, having short hair is expressing my thought that being a woman does not mean listening when people say women should have long hair. I can’t wait to express this thought with other mediums!

The rest of my week was dedicated to getting my portfolio together for midterm critiques. Halfway through the semester, most classes here at New England School of Art and Design have a sort of check-in with each student to see how their work is progressing and looking as a whole. In my drawing class, this is in the form of a critique. If you’ve never experienced a critique, it is basically talking about your own artwork, getting advice from your classmates and professor  about your artwork, and in the case of our class, discussing how we’re going to move forward with our work for the remainder of the semester. For each student, they put all of their work up from the semester on the walls and we spend about 20 minutes on each person. This took up two classes. I’ve put some photographs I took of my drawing critique to show what my body of work from this semester looks like. The first photo is of my drawings from class time: we worked our way through gesture drawings, line drawings, work with ink and conté crayon, and charcoal. The second photo is of my drawing done out of class for homework. As I’ve mentioned before, homework for this drawing class is done on a slightly smaller drawing pad with whatever subject and medium we want, as long as the drawing we bring in is finished. I tried to do homework in a few different mediums to develop my skills in each and to see what I like best. This includes ink and pen, charcoal, pencil, and colored pencil.