joe randel's art dump

If you could take some extra classes to learn what ever you wanted, what would it be?  I’m torn between two things.  One would be photography.  I’ve always loved to take pictures, and if I could learn how to set up and take better photos… well, that would be awesome.  Although, I’m sure if I just sprung for a new, fancy camera, I could just teach myself to take good photos with out paying school fees.

The other thing I’d love to learn about and study is how people draw.  Specifically, how people that can’t/don’t draw, draw.  I was watching one of the programmers try do draw something the other day I noticed that he wasn’t putting any thought in to the line he was putting down.  Nor was he thinking about where the line was going to be.  He also would but down details that he knew he would need for the drawing, but not put much thought in to where they where in relation to his work.  I found this fascinating and would love to study that more.  That mixed in with the development of children and how they learn to draw.  My prof said that children all go through a similar pattern of shapes and symbols when they learn how to draw.  Heck, I don’t even know if you can go and learn or study that sort of thing anywhere, but I would love it.

Any ideas on what you’d want to learn?