Awesomeness, all around

HOKAY! Lots to share from the past week.
On monday, I had 3D design. We began our foam cor sculptures. Here's mine, above, which I finished up this weekend. It was a pain in the ass. I don't think I'll do very well on it. But good news? I actually got As on both the plasticine and wire portion. Wow, wasn't expecting it.
After 3D was life drawing! Woo. Here are the warm up gestures we did


She made us do this one with our non-dominate hand. She said it would be the best gesture we'll do all day...I do like it a bit
After warm ups, we did a contour exercise, where we construct the entire figure with ovoid shapes. It looks super lumpy x)
Then we began on the next assignment, which was a continous line drawing, focusing on the entire room, not just the model. I'm not exactly sure what this assignment is supposed to teach us, she put a lot of importance on having foreground, middle ground, and background?
Also, this model got a boner in class? o.O weird...I didn't see it from the side though
Our homework assignment was a hand exercise. We are supposed to draw some 5-6 hand sketches, pick one, and construct the bones underneath. This is my big hand, you can kinda see the bone drawing below it
And here are the bones...this assignment was tough because she didn't talk about it at all. Maybe it's not actually due yet? She's vague sometimes, she'll say a million things in class so you forget the important stuff, like what we're actually supposed to do
Here are my sketches
After that I stayed for extra!


My friend Mike said he liked these....Now, Mike is probably the most talented guy in class, so I like sitting next to him to see what he does and such, and occassionally, when he's not feeling like an asshole, he'll help you :) I didn't really like these, I dunno what he sees in em

On Tuesday, I did some sketching in my sketchbook in the cafeteria. I need to do this more often, my sketchbook is empty empty empty and that deadline is racing toward me. Yikes. Gotta get to the zoo sometime too
I had imaging systems on tuesday as well. We started perspective. This is what I did all class (bad pic, my apologies). It was super boring, and god, I hate making those ellipses.
Tuesday I didn't go to extra, I went to yoga instead! Ahhh it was so nice.
Wednesday was color theory. We did more motif work, after giving my presentation on process color (which went fairly well). This week was the complementary and analogous color schemes. I worked all day today to finish them. I like my analogous one a lot (I hope I did it right though) My complementary....not so much. It's messy, the colors are kind of off. Maybe I'll redo it. But each one of these takes about 4 hours, so thats a lot of extra effort on my part. We'll see what she says next class.
Wednesday extra life yet again!




On thursday, no class. But I did start doing some head studies from Burn Hogarth. I suck at faces, I'm trying to take steps at getting better at them.

Thursday afternoon I went with Christian (my new boyfriend....oh man thats so weird to say!) to Mississauga (yes, the famed Mississauga) We went to Chapters, as I'd never been. It's just like Borders, by the way. Then we went to Square One, this giant mall, and walked around a bit. After that I went to his condo, which has a stunning view on the 24th floor (24th! Buildings in Boulder don't get taller than 5!) The sunsets are beautiful there. But, we hung out so long I missed extra life. Never again! Although he finally did kiss me that night, so I guess it was worth it.
On Friday I went to 2D design. She handed back our last project, so here are pictures. Sorry the final picture sucks. I got one of the highest grades in class, mostly because my thumbnail work was well done (below) I guess the process is very important to her, which will teach good habits.

We are starting our next project, which is a rhythm in architecture design thing...we spent the whole class walking around campus and taking pictures. I haven't started any of the thumbnail work yet though.
Friday evening me and Christian and Tahini walked alllll the way to Lake Ontario from Sheridan. Its 2 miles each way! Bleh. But when we got there it was very pretty and nice out. We sat for awhile and then came back, right as it started to get super cold! Goodbye, summer. When we got back I warmed up and ate some food and called it a night.
Saturday I did some homework, then we all did some errands in my car for our international potluck. I cooked Beanie weenies (american), Chris and Bryce made poutine (Canadian), Amy make perogies (not really sure haha), and Tahini made chicken curry (well, thai curry. it was supposed to be chicken curry). We didn't sit down to eat until 10 because it took so long, but it was soooooo good. I ate a lot. Kind of a weird mash up of food though. After that, some of my classmates (Curtis, Pat, and Jake) came over, as they had just moved into an apartment across the street. We went to their apartment and had some crazy conversations on the floor, since they don't have any furniture yet. It was...an interesting night?
Today was all homework, actually, just color theory homework so far. Gonna start my 2D work after some dinner and maybe a shower and then go to bed for my long day tomorrow.
I don't even feel like I'm in school. It's just like...awesomeness. All around.

Time is Flying

So! It's been a crazy week. Time has been FLYING.
On monday was english. Easy peasy. Then 3D. We had to turn our plasticine sculptures into wire sculptures. HARDEST THING EVER. We again only had 2 hours. I took a picture, but I forgot to upload it >_< It didn't look that great anyway, you're not missing much.
After that was drawing, my favorite class. We talked about gestures. She wants us to put a lot of energy into areas of weight and force. It's hard to explain what she talked about, but I tried it, and I didn't like my results. Me and conte are still at battle, and I'm not used to doing full page gestures. My gestures are little. It's a lot harder to get anatomy down on a full peice of paper, not sure why.


After that we did our critique of our blind contours. Most of them were terrible, a lot of students spent maybe 5 minutes on them before class. I put in a good effort for mine, but she gave us all the chance to redo ours, so I decided to do it anyway, since she mentioned mine was too small.
Then we did the class assignment, which was more outline drawing. It's due next time, but I already finished in class. She stressed the importance of line weight, meaning if the line is the outline of say hair or clothing it should be a lot softer than the line for the easel or the heater.
Then it was time for extra! We had a young male model. His poses were good, but he moved a lot. I tried to do more of what she instructed us to do.

It still frustrated me, so I moved to pencil
I've been thinking a lot about the way I draw. I really need to wow the portfolio reviewers, with something original and different. I dunno, I just want to be more creative than just drawing the figure. So I've been messing around a bit.


Of course, old habits die hard.


Tuesday we had imaging systems. Spent the whole class doing the isometric drawing. I should probably color the rest of the label, but I'm not sure how I want it to look
Tuesday I did not go to extra life...I went to yoga! It was fantastic, and some of my friends also happen to be in the class! It felt good to do something that helped me clear my head :)

On wednesday we had color theory. The assignment was this: we got into groups of 5 or 6 and were given a color painting in black and white. It was our job to repaint it in color together. To do this we split the painting up into piece and were each assigned a grided portion of the painting, and we all used the same color tones to do it. Our group had a really cool painting, some sort of castle on a giant rock in the sky, I forgot who/what is was. We spent a lot of time mixing the paint, and had to super quickly paint it all in the last half hour of class, but it looked pretty darn good!
I went to extra again on wednesday. I finally started to get along with conte pencils I think





I liked the model quite a bit.
On thursday I did not have class, but I spent most of the day doing 2D Design homework and trying to get shit all figured out. I also went to a Zumba class, which is like a latin cardio dance fitness class. I broke quite a sweat! It was a good workout.
Then I went to extra yet again :) I love all this life drawing.
The model was cool, and by the second half there were only 4 of us left. She was super tired, but chill. It was so odd to interact with a model so much, usually they hardly say a word.



In this one I tried to mess with perspective. There are a bunch of examples in the hallway outside the drawing room, so I thought I'd try it. I think it came out ok, except for the hands, which are all fucked up.


Thats my favorite of the week ^.^ The lines around her head were an afterthought, but I think they add a lot

On friday I went to 2D Design, a little late since I had a doctors appointment, which was a 30 minute wait for maybe 3 minutes of face time with the doctor. So silly. I forgot to do pictures of my final composition, I was handing it in just as she was walking out the door. Gouache is tricky in such a small scale, when I'm trying to be so precise! But I had a lot of people tell me mine looked good, and that I had really good thumbnails. All those years of doodling weren't for nothing :)

After class on friday, me, Christian, Tahini, and Mike went to McDonalds for dinner, then headed down to Toronto. We walked all the way up and down Queen Street, then met up with Mike's old friends from Max The Mutt. It's some animation school in Toronto which I've never ever heard of. But Mike is fairly skilled from his 2 years there, and one of his friends actually interned with Pixar, whom I met. We all went to a pub, first pub experience ever! I was so disappointed I didn't have any cash (my bank here is RETARDED. If I try to cash a check I have to wait 5 business days for it to clear...wtf?) because they didn't card a single person. Totally could have gotten a beer if I wanted one :P But Mike's friends were HILARIOUS. So many nationalities at one table! I sat with Tahini (Indian), Erik (Greek....also sings constantly. who needs a stereo when you have him?), Andres (Columbian. Super talented guy I mentioned earlier), Alejandro (Mexican, and um, super attractive ;) ), and Christian (Asian). And me, who is American. Those guys were a ton of fun, I definitely want to hang out with them more. After a bit we parted ways and headed back home.
This weekend there are a few things I need to get done. I'm redoing that portrait, I have to do some hand sketches for drawing class, work on my presentation for Color Theory and yep, thats about it. It's so weird to have such little work to do!

Anyway, Canada really suits me I think. Life told me to come here and I'm glad I listened.