In this activity, we practiced a lot of observational drawings, which are simple objects. In fact, I have not studied professional art in the past, but after I came to this school, I found that the foundation of art is important and I also found the benefits of observational drawing. It not only trained me to draw faster and capture the movement of people, things, and objects but also helps me to observe more on my surroundings. We also did observational drawings on the texture that we saw, I think this helped me in the way that I might able to use these shapes and patterns in my artwork in the future, they gave me inspiration.

During this class, we also drew our own hands, but we had to keep our eyes on them and not look at the paper. This practice trained our ability to position ourselves accurately while we are drawing and I think it also made me become more confident in what I am drawing and be more decisive.

The last activity of the class was to draw a large observational drawing, starting with a piece of paper, finding an angle around the classroom, and starting sketching until the edge, then continuing with another piece of paper. I found this activity very interesting because it gave me a feeling of freedom to draw and I could see from my classmates’ work that everyone has a different perspective even though we were in the same classroom.