Re: [oldboys] re:HAL GALS = BIKE DRAWING CONTEXST?

[Mathilde muPe <mupe@desk.nl>]

At 19:10 11-7-01 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear HAL Gals, 
>
>So maybe we could have a bike drawing stand/table/tent at the HAL?
>And since we will have examples of the most masculine of men it will be 
>most interesting. I mean the tinkerers .....

Sounds like fun. Those who want to cheat can come over at my tent.

>I tooke th etest and drew a useless set of lines even though I change my 
>own tires for years and ride a bike at least 45 minutes a day for the last 
>20 years.
>
>My boyfriend's bike had a crankshaft , chain, and pedals and he knew that 
>the shape 
>of the bike was based on a series of triangles (even he could draw a girls 
>bike no prob). 
>

Gni, I know the problem. Some years ago I started to train myself in
drawing cars and
bikes. I just could not stand it having a technical eye and not be able to
get beyond a 
hieroglyf level of picturizing it. (It struck me when I had an assignement
which included 
drawing a street )

To me the reason why I failed to easy sketch a good looking car or bike is
simple; I missed the training in my childhood.
Gave up at first clumsy bike/car drawings and back then nobody would say;
Girl, let me help you to draw a real car.
Nowadays my mother keeps her eye open to freebee toy cars to bring to me as
a sketch model.

Mathilde




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