These are some self-portraits the girls in my advanced class recently finished. They worked from photos and used a grid to enlarge the portraits. I'm very proud of them.
To be fair to the people in your class, drawing from a live model as opposed to a photo is very much harder. And the things I do with my kids to bring them along to some success, I would never do with a "regular" class.
Lots of hand-holding, emotional stroking, cajoling, encouraging, bribing, threatening, taunting, hard-ass disciplining, piece of candy on the end of a string, etc. Why? Cuz their school experience has been one failure after another, usually out of their control due to homelessness, abuse, and substance abuse. If I can let them feel what it feels like to be successful, the next time, they don't need so much hand-holding and I can do more teaching. In a "regular" class, I'd just tell them to suck it up and get to work. Of course, I do still use that technique with these kids, too. That falls under the "hard-ass" technique.
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I modeled for a portrait class today. All of those look better than the people's in my class. (Who were beginners though.)
To be fair to the people in your class, drawing from a live model as opposed to a photo is very much harder. And the things I do with my kids to bring them along to some success, I would never do with a "regular" class.
what kinds of things would you never do with a regular class?
Lots of hand-holding, emotional stroking, cajoling, encouraging, bribing, threatening, taunting, hard-ass disciplining, piece of candy on the end of a string, etc. Why? Cuz their school experience has been one failure after another, usually out of their control due to homelessness, abuse, and substance abuse. If I can let them feel what it feels like to be successful, the next time, they don't need so much hand-holding and I can do more teaching. In a "regular" class, I'd just tell them to suck it up and get to work. Of course, I do still use that technique with these kids, too. That falls under the "hard-ass" technique.
Hey, Dhyana, I need a good playlist for the title "dance". Send me some suggestion, ok? You young hip kids know all the groovy new music.
that daft punk cd on my wishlist (that shane made a copy of for me) is my current favorite dance music fo sho
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