First Week, First Draft

Some things are just hard to start, but if you keep going you're good.

Accepting the start of another semester felt this way. I didn't want to accept it while I was at home sleeping all day that life would be changing again soon, but as it turns out, I love my major so it's worth it. What we get to do in Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design is crazy to hear about, but I think the people in it would be bored anywhere else. I know I'd feel like I was missing something if I was majoring in any of the other things I considered. Sometimes, our projects make me feel that way anyway, but that feeling just means it's time to walk around and look at other people's desks, because chances are they've got at least a little more figured out. This week, the things I was missing were: the slightest clue on how to start drawing the eyelash curler I'd chosen for my project, how to draw something in motion (a skill that has progressed greatly this week), and where to get paper. It didn't actually take talking to anyone to see how to solve the first problem, just looking around I saw that everyone was in fact drawing and that really is step number one. I had to "just do it," so I did. After that, I kept going. After this, it's time to go back and do more. The first draft is the hardest, like baking a cake without a recipe. You mess some stuff up but at least now you have the recipe written and next time you try it you know what to fix. The best cakes are made from recipes that have been slightly changed for generations. Hopefully drawing an eyelash curler clamping won't take that long.

Things I had to either learn/recognize this week:

It's good when things aren't easy, it means you're going to learn more from it.

Not talking to people is what will make you feel lost in this program, it has nothing to do with if you think you know what you're doing or not.

You have to recognize the things you don't know if you're going to get better.

Developing your own way of doing something makes every later attempt much easier.

When attempting an axonometric drawing don't think of it as a creation, start with a "block" and then carve away the shape.