Week 13: 4/6-4/13

 

FRUSTRATION: 

This week I decided to change things up and first lightly sketch the outline of my practice with the pencil option on the drawing app I use. I wasn't sure how it would work out as I have previously just drawn with the pen and erased whenever I messed up. I found that this time, though, I had more liberty to make mistakes and just adjust the image and delete at the very end. It was much easier to visualize the different body parts and how they connected to one another. I found this piece especially difficult because of the position of the girl sitting and I also really struggle drawing hands. My word this week was "frustration". I have been dealing with a lot of frustration because of my relationship and this week I felt like I couldn't do anything because of it. I decided to depict this by having a girl (representing myself) sitting on the floor with her head to her knees and messy lines surrounding her. I felt that this really communicated how trapped I felt this week, not knowing what I should do or how to overcome what I was feeling enough to get through my schoolwork. My shape this week was lines and I pondered at first what I was going to try to do to integrate them, but felt like a mass of squiggly lines would be the most fitting for this practice. 

I think this piece also shows how helpless I felt this week. I struggled to find ways to let out this frustration which I usually do with physical activity or just spending time outside. Not having an outlet felt overwhelming. Before this drawing, I was really distracted, not being able to do any of my other work, but I hope that spending a few minutes working on my practice will help to refocus my thoughts and acknowledge that everything will work out.  

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