Love the process in my drawing class -

[Ms. Toad]

4. I am.

Not so much with drawing (which I haven't done since middle school), but with photography I have been flying by the seat of my pants, using techniques I developed mostly on my own for decades. Since all my instructors are around half my age, they are a bit reluctant to impose their techniques on me, since the photographs I'm creating are already at the top of the class. I even got a little hesitation from this instructor in the first arrangement - which made the starting part of his process less useful. Even though I have virtually no experience he was very quick to say, "you don't have to do it that way."

But the point of going to school at my age isn't to get another degree to hang on the wall, or to use to get a job - it is to learn. I've been focusing on practicing whatever they are teaching, even if it is different from how I might approach it so I can learn new techniques and approaches. When I'm not in class, I'll adopt what works, but if I don't take advantage of what they are teaching, how would I even know what works?