Drawing is Language 02/16/2020

Is Drawing a Language? Can drawings say things that are hard to say with words?

Yes, drawing is a Language. Before civilization created words, we use to use images or hand signals to communicate. Even in modern society today, a lot of people text with, or through, emojis, stickers, or gifs. I know I do. A Lot of times I would text with stickers or emojis to express my feelings or thoughts across. 

For example, “I did it!” or “Hooray” I would use °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

For motivation, “You got this” (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

Surprised or Shocked, Σ(・Д・)!?

Angry or tired of hw- flip the table, (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Crying from sadness, ｡ﾟ(ﾟ∩´﹏`∩ﾟ)ﾟ｡     or unsolvable hw ╥﹏╥

Do you like to draw? Was it fun? Was it frustrating? 

Yeah, I like to doodle in my free time or during my classes whenever I have lessons I already studied about before. My favorite assignments in any of my classes were always the arts and crafts ones, which is why, even though my major is computer science, back in high school I used to take up a lot of multimedia classes, digital art, and video-game design/development classes because I enjoyed them a lot more compared to coding. I definitely had a lot of fun doing my 6 sketches, even though I felt like the Blind Contour Drawing was extremely difficult to do (I really really wanted to look at my sketched when I drew it, so I had to try really hard not to, and to focus on my drink, that I’m drawing, instead). I would definitely do this again in the future.

Is your drawing so awful that you just can’t stand to look at it? 

 No, not really. I used to take art classes from my aunt when I was in elementy (for about two summers), so I got the basics of drawing down. I would say my drawings aren’t phenomenal but they are pleasing to look at. Well except for realistic drawings, I usually draw animated characters or objects such as my lunch box designs (with recipe), cake designs, room designs, buildings, food, but don’t have enough patience to draw detailed stuff like leaves, grass, or individual bricks on a building.

Do you think if you practiced for 100 hours, or 1,000, that you would get a lot better?

Yeah, definitely. The more you practice and draw, the easier it would be for you to draw what you imagine or see in front of you. And then you can also improve your skills and learn more ways to add depth to your art pieces.

What is your major? Can you think of any ways that simple sketching of some kind could be useful in your major?

Yes, definitely! I am majoring in computer science, and I can definitely tell you that simple sketching is useful in my major. Multiple of my teachers would tell their students to draw out the code if we are ever stuck, or before even typing in our code, to draw it out first so we can have a visual idea of how our code would work. There are a few times that me and my partner would be stuck in our code, so we would stop to draw it out and discuss how to write our code to work the way we drew it out. Most of the simple sketches for coding look like maps, trees, graphs, or lists with arrows and notes.

How many languages do you speak? 

If we include coding languages then I speak several 🤔. I know English, Vietnamese, Python and Java. I learned Spanish in High School but I’m sure that I lost everything I learned in those classes by now.

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