blacks blacker than black

so i stole that line from a stupid commercial, but it seemed appropriate.

i just can't seem to make my blacks black enough in drawing class. i think i have a fear of going too dark...maybe committing to that one particular shade to find out that it just isn't right there. i did the other half of the homework that i so crazily didn't do last week because life as i knew it was falling apart. didn't make too good of a grade on it...of course, half of the assignment was missing. the assignment was to draw these "flags" that we had to arrange in creative ways and then shade them to give them the right light quality. hes willing to re-average it with the grade for the one i turned in today. anyway, as i was saying, i really have tried to go dark. he keeps telling me to be more aggressive...maybe i'm just not aggressive enough to make a truly black black. obviously, i need to work on it.

i have some cage drawings to do now...i basically have to draw the surface of objects using horizontal and vertical lines that end up making some sort of cage like thing. on top of that, which is due thursday, i have a 9 hour drawing due tuesday. i also have another paper due on wednesday for english. crappit. why can't i just have a week when i can just simply relax?