Over the last few weeks I have realized that I never really learned to draw formally. I have been working a lot to make-up for all the things that I haven't learned. There are so many simple things that I have never used with my pieces. I have had such a hard time with proportions and measuring that it is not even funny. I am almost agitated that something so simple as learning to really measure the piece with my pencil could have easily rectified the situation. I have pretended in the past that I knew what to do, or maybe at some point I knew how to do that and forgot, but it is more likely that I never learned.
I feel so cheated because I attended a private art school that cost a lot of money. I did improve greatly from the quality of art that I was making at my high school, but I wish I had these basics down, or at least in my memory. I fell like a novice when at this point I should be closer to professional status. I think the struggling that I have experienced, due to lack of formal skills, is in part why I have not enjoyed creating as much as I would like to. I am thankful that I am gaining this skills now though.
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