Why life drawing made Titanic even worse.

We have been having life drawing lessons every week for over a month. Which is why yesterday we had to draw one pose for over two hours. We were told by the teacher that even though we all love drawing with big, curvy line we were not aloud to do that anymore. until we got better at drawing. 

We had to use straight line to mark out the figure and then use hatching to create darker shapes. This method is not very me, I love splashing paint about and making a huge expressive mess when drawing, but I did what I was told and drew with straight line. At first I was still a bit too expressive, making the lines too thick and heavy, but I have improved. 

The other day I was flicking channels and I came across Titanic. Now I am not a big Titanic fan. I cry at the end because Leonardo DiCaprio dies and at the time he was quite a hottie, but it pisses me off when they spend 2 hours going in and out of the water like it is not that cold. So I got to the bit where Leo is drawing Kate 'like one of his french girls', in the first place Leo is not really drawing her and who ever is drawing her does not map her out like we are supposed to do in life drawing class. He or she, just starts at Kate's head and draws it perfectly all the way down, with shading and everything. That is just completely crazy! No one would ever do that. No one who has ever drawn a person would do that. 

So that is how life drawing has made Titanic even worse, because in the famous 'draw me like one of your french girls' scene they do not actually draw like a normal person. The whole thing is just so fake.