This week truly opened my eyes to my lack of artistic ability.  I knew before this that I could not draw or paint to any significant level of skill, but now I can officially say that technology and I are not friends as well.  However, my lack of artistic skill aside, I do think that it was an incredibly enjoyable week of workshops.

Starting with the first workshop on Monday morning, I was taken back to elementary school art class where I was practicing my collage techniques, and I really enjoyed having complete freedom to cut and place things wherever I was originally driven to place them.  For Monday’s workshop I chose to cut out all of the things that interested me when I noticed them flipping through the magazines.  As I collected all of these seemingly random pieces, I started to see a story forming that eventually turned into the collage I created.  The randomness was able to become a story, which intrigued me because even though I felt random I guess I was not being random.

Today in the Digital Illustration Workshop, I had the opportunity to once again be disappointed in myself as a future artist.  While I have already harped on this point, I did manage to get a lot more out of it beyond my shortcomings.  I thought it was really interesting to see how much more complicated digital illustration is than it looks.  I also  got to experience how many potential things you can do with the computer in the digital illustrator.  I experimented with a few different techniques when I was creating my pieces.

So while at the end of the day I learned a lot about my inabilities, I still got a lot out of using these programs and techniques that I haven’t been able to try before this week.