TOE week 39: Learning to Draw With Seth Meyers

I probably have aspirations that are larger than I can chew. Again I thought I could finish my metal title set and again I only got about half of it done. It is most likely a time management thing. There is a lot of time during the day but much of it is spent in Kindergarten. Actually I haven’t even gotten to preschool yet. When I’m not singing about tiny spiders and wheels on buses I get to paint. I need to factor out that time in my day but for whatever reason I don’t. 

The good news is I have one of the tile sets finished! I just have to do the second part of the metal tile set then it will be all done. I did lose a day when I wasn’t happy with the starting metal beams. I revamped them a day later and was much happier with them they read visually much better. I learned how I wanted to properly draw them from Seth Meyers of all places. Yeah that dude who tells jokes on late night Television. 

The thing that was crammed into my face when I was in art school was learning to see. I remember fighting against it a little bit. Like I would draw an arm or car wheel and the teach would come over and basically tell me to look again. “The wheel it doesn’t look like that.” I would then stubbornly claim that, it did. More than likely it didn’t. I mean what is college for, if not to go to school pay a boat load of money to tell a teacher how you think the world looks. Then I remember teaching my brother in law this same thing and when he didn’t ‘see it’. As an older wiser and more okay with being wrong my eye for seeing have sharpened over the years. 

When I was struggling to draw my metal beams and I saw the metal beams behind Seth Meyers. It didn’t take much for me to look and say ‘oh that it how you make a metal beam look like that.’ That is another thing that is a must for any aspiring artist reference photos. If you’re an actual paid artist you probably already know this. So I downloaded a photo from Seth Meyer’s show and got the metal beams done right. 

I also got to go to my wife’s school this week and talk with her physics teacher buddy and find out the missing 15% of the facing on a parabola. He gave us an equation that he thought would fix the problem. Turns out when I got home and looked at what we already had, we already had that part of the equation. Something else to ask on stack exchange I suppose.

Other than the metal set that was all that happened this week. I think this week I can actually finish the metal tile set.