ELI DERRINGTON I am a 4th year undergraduate student, hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee. After a year and a half as an Aerospace Engineering major, I changed over to Civil Engineering and found my passion in transportation planning and design. My primary interest is with transit systems, and I have added a minor from the School of City Planning to better understand how transit should fit into and enhance urban areas. Before this course, I had no real experience with drawing and doubted how much that might change. Now, I am taken aback by how quickly I became comfortable drawing and how this course has changed how I see objects and the world around me.
"FLORAL SELF PORTRAIT" CHARCOAL ON PAPER, 16"x20” It is one thing to know you have an asymmetric face, but it is a whole different animal to reckon with that as you draw a self portrait. I also have always had an aversion to looking at myself in pictures, much as many people—myself included—dislike hearing audio of themselves speaking. Because of this, I found it more difficult to render myself in a satisfactory way than I did with any other drawing. To distract myself, I replaced my neck and body with a stem and leaves and gave myself flowers as companions.
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