We all get kids who are considered 'tight' on the high
school level, and I think we all expose them to 'loose'
somewhere along the line. I have been in the 'business'
long enough to track where these 'tight' artists have
ended up...Two come to mind immediately, one is now an
architect, and the other is a medical illustrator.
Being "tight" is not a fault. It is something I am
definitely not, but then if you saw my room, and how I
dress, you could figure that out easily. Sometimes we are
how we draw, and shouldn't be made to feel 'bad' about
that.
Funny story. Don, the architect, only took art his senior
year, second semester. I replaced an art teacher, who
incidently was as 'tight' as he was, but she was also very
rigid in her teaching and that only attracted a certain
student in the elective environment. He never took the
art class because she scared him to death. He took my art
class, and was pleasantly surprised and what he could do,
as he NEVER drew in his life before. We took his drawing
of a pocket watch and entered it into one of the local
shows, and it won....2nd prize in the PHOTOGRAPHY
CATEGORY! Long story short, we are friends 20 years later,
he is an architect and I get to eat free when accompanied
by him to the restaurants he has designed!
