Sep 08, 2004 14:16
Due to the cancellation of one of my classes, I had to take Life Drawing. I hate drawing other than the occasional hairy crotch on a birthday card, so taking the class was strictly for accommodation purposes only.
There's a kid in the class my age, who always comes late. He wears a beret shaped hat, but it seems to be made out of burlap - a bum's version, I suppose. He seems to shower seldom and has a knack for sketching THE NUDE. Yesterday, he showed up twenty minutes late as usual, but this time was different. He kept falling asleep in mid-sketch. During the warm up exercises, when the model poses in various positions, often very revealing aka spread eagle, this kid would still fall asleep - dropping his piece of charcoal to make this tired act more believable. Then he would bend down to pick out a different drawing tool and there he would almost fall over because he had fallen asleep again. Throughout the morning I thought he was faking. I just don't believe that if you're drawing a naked person, faced toward you, that you would fall asleep every couple of minutes. I can believe that he was that tired, but even so, shutting your eyes even for ten seconds, wouldn't you remember that a naked man was lounging not but five feet from where you stand? NOT TO MENTION, if you were so tired that you couldn't help but fall asleep while STANDING, you probably should have just kept on hitting that snooze button.