So I had my first Informal drawing class last night. The lady started explaining what all our materials were, what we should have etc. So then said she wanted us to experiment with our charcoals by drawing a still life. So she handed out a bag of popcorn to everyone and said "ok, draw a piece of popcorn." Well....Ok....So we all start drawing away and she starts walking around telling us to get the outline of the piece then to start shading. So she came by my easel and of course I didn't know what I was doing, but I was trying. She showed me how to shade on my piece of paper with my fingers, which was a lot of fun when the picture's shadows started coming out, my fingers just started to turn black. So we sit there and we're drawing popcorn for like 2 hours. I got bored with my first piece so decided to start drawing another one. At the end of class, most people only had one picture drawn of popcorn. Hmm...Anyway, I took another look at my picture when I got in the car this morning, and the thing really does look like popcorn. I was so proud of myself.
I can't wait til my kickboxing class tonight. Then when I threaten that I'll kick someone's butt, I actually might have something to back it up with ;)