Wk4-Art Experience- “Drawing is Language”

I enjoy drawing I can even be bold and say I love drawing. I often criticize my own work because I am my own worst critic by expecting monumental art. However it is a fun hobby for me that keeps me at peace. Even when my work is “bad” I still enjoy seeing it and laughing at it because I don’t take it too serious because it’s meant to be fun or at least passionate with either love anger or any other emotion that is strong enough to inspire your work.

I speak four languages and I can agree with different languages enabling different thought. Such as thinking in Spanish or translating English to German. However American Sign Language has been an interesting learning experience since I use my hands and body language to express myself and communicate within the deaf community.

While drawing outside next the NOW I had the opportunity to meet my classmates a bit more while drawing them and sharing our thought process of how to draw trees or our hand contour. In which I learned patience for myself to not erase I was able to manage without it. I would definitely try this activity again even with my friends as we have lunch or simply hang out. Practicing is known to improve your skill in whatever it may be in this case it is drawing and it will improve dramatically if I practiced for 100 or even 1,000 hours. Being an engineering major having sketching skills is important when designing machinery, new equipment, or blueprints for a new building or bridges. Therefore, having some sort of sketching skill under your belt as an engineer will improve you understanding do your projects and help others have a clear understanding of what it is you’re explaining.

Drawing is a language because it translate to emotions which words can cause too. Hence psychologists having there patient draw when they cannot explain a trauma they have experienced with words. In which it helps the doctor have a better understanding of what and how the patient feels and thinks. Seeing them draw is even better to see how they process thought and emotion. Henceforth, drawing is a language of its own that is just as important as speaking or signing.