Idea #4: Drawing is also a Language
It was fun to draw whatever you wanted on the drink that you were using and because you got to be with your friends and share ideas with each other. It was also frustrating because you had to draw what you thought of in your head and in your head it looks really beautiful but when it came with you having to use your hand to try and copy what you had in mind it might come out not looking exactly as the image in your head. I always liked to draw but I knew that I was never in the same level as the ones that could draw professionally and trace the objects onto the papers so neatly and perfectly. If I was given the opportunity to try to draw again then yeah I would do it because it is a lot of fun when you can draw whatever you want and especially when you can draw alongside your friends.
In these three photos I tried to draw my friend Derek Zhang as precise as possible but I don’t know how to draw so I drew his face bad. If I practiced drawing for 100 or 1000 hours then I probably would have drew Derek more better and in the pictures it looks like he is just staring but he was smiling under his face mask.
My major is Chinese Studies B.A. Some ways that I think that simple sketches can be useful in my major is when I have to draw an object that I can’t remember the Chinese character of and another one can be where if I don’t remember how to pronounce a certain Chinese character but I remember how it looks like then I can I just write or sketch it.
Drawing can be a language because if you draw a cup for example then any person, it doesn’t matter what nation they are from, will know what the cup is even when if you can’t understand each other because of the language barrier.
Drawings can say things like feelings to the viewer that the artist finds hard to express with just words because in a drawing we can create it with feelings and those feelings reside within the painting when we finish the painting.
Jorge Mendez Milian 