4 - Style - Week 1

 Objective

Artists learn to draw and thereby to learn to see. That’s what this exercise is about. Learning to draw with language and thereby to perceive more vividly.

Assignment

This is a simple exercise with a simple emphasis: writing with your five senses.

Write a three-paragraph description of a person or a place. Show the reader what it looks like, smells like, feels like, sounds like, even tastes like.

Try to put pressure on every word, every phrase. Make every sentence meaningful, sensible, and clear.

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Always chewing gum that tasted like spearmint, he really loved everything related to nature. His favorite perfume smells like dark wood. Skinny in size, with an average height above 1.75 meters. In case you arrive at his house, music will always be heard from outside. He loves the sound of the bass and the drums. The house feels like that of an old lady. He has a beautiful garden. His hands are stubborn and a little rough from all the work he constantly does. He never has a beard, always a clean face with short, long brown hair. He normally ties it into a small ponytail and brushes his hair backward. The long face makes him look older, but his dressing gives away his real age. A single 22-year-old man.

He loves to wear blue and black T-shirts without any drawings or logos. He wears on the jeans weekends, and during the week at work, he is always in white shirts and dress pants. He has the same white shirts but different pants to go to work. On Fridays, he always wears his white tennis shoes, which he only uses on Fridays. From Monday to Thursday, he wears several pairs of brown shoes. During the weekend, he opts for sandals or work boots, depending on the garden work.

He always speaks slowly but has one of those deep voices. However, when he laughs suddenly, he has a high-pitched voice. Some people believe he fakes the laugh or the voice, but since he hates smoking, we know his voice is natural. He is a very average or normal guy, except for the tiny difference of having purple eyes. The tone is dark, so in a normal environment, you won’t realize it until you are in front of him. It is something all his family has.