art from high school

I made this when I was 18 and that was 4 years ago. Looking back on it, I didn’t really fully apprecaite the fact that I won a second place award for drawing it from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Now I realize how many different people were going after the same thing and that second place wasn’t that bad. I took the picture it was drawn from. Everyone else in my class used flashes for a dimly lit setup while I just opened that aperture of my camera lens to let more light in. Using a flash seemed to defeat the purpose. Only one other person did a painting similar. So, all in all, looking back, I guess I did a pretty good job with a few pencils and a black piece of paper.

~ by jonathanmilling on December 9, 2008.