Old Drawings #9

Skull (2B pencil, A2 cartridge paper)

From my Journal:

17th October 1986

On Monday night I went to my CVS class and felt rather out of it. I'd intended to maintain the impetus of the previous Monday by doing some drawing in the intervening period, but of course, I didn't. When I got to the Mandela Building, I couldn't decide what to do. I finally settled on a sheep (goat?) skull but couldn't really get into it. Part of the problem lies in the uniform lighting of the room - not conducive to dynamic light and shade drawing. Part of my enthusiasm melted away that night .....

Old Drawings #5

Cheese plant (2B pencil, A2 cartridge paper)

Years pass. Pages fly from the front of the calendar. Tumbleweed blows across Boogie Street, and I do no drawing apart from cartoons (some of which are finding new life in Illustration Friday).

But now it's 1986. In a Journal I kept at the time, I wrote:

9th October 1986

The only other development has been my first session at the Cert. of Visual Studies course last Monday. I got there and hung around until the tutor, Mr T, put in an appearance. He kind of glanced at my drawings and recent Rhodes sketches and then suggested I sit down and draw something from life. There was already a big cheese plant set up so I had a go at that. After three hours I felt really into it. Wonderful feeling, and he thought it was a good drawing, too.

The problem now is that I'm not sure where I go from here. The course seems totally unstructured. I am supposed to provide my own structure, but surely that's always been my problem. Still, it's maybe a bit early to make judgements.