My school's called PNCA-- pacific northwest college of art. I've started introducing it as 'the ninja art school', since the Art Institute is only a mile away, AND right next to a trolley stop, so when I tell people I go to the art school, they look blank, and then go, "...The AI?" and I have to explain that no, PNCA, the invisible hidden converted matress factory that is in fact much much cooler than AI. Of course, sometimes people had no idea that Portland HAS art schools.
I don't like the AI much, obviously.
I'm majoring in Illustration. Or at least, I will be. Every time I go to developmental advising I'm like, Can I declare my major yet and start taking specific classes? And they're like no, you're too early, this year is for exploration and deciding if you REALLY, REALLY, SUPER DUPER EXTRA SPECIAL want to take it. I guess a lot of kids go to PNCA without a really clear idea of what they want to do, and then find out in foundation year. Or they originaly wanted photography but decided printmaking was cooler. I don't really care for photography, printmaking, ceramics, or painting, so I still want to be an Illustrator. Ceramics is fun enough, but I couldn't make a living at it. Illustration is basicaly what it sounds like: you get something, and you draw a picture for it. Bonus points if the picture is clever, or funny, or pretty. So like, the work I'll be looking for will be editorials, magazine covers (if I end up really good), maybe posters and ads, books. I really want to illustrate books.
Remember when we were really little and we decided that you would be a famous writer and I would illustrate all of them? Maybe the books will be in Cuniform. The Akkadian Code, or something.
I'll see if Amy (best friend from Portland) has heard of it.
It seems a little weird that we're both still interested in the things we were interested in when we were seven. I don't think that's true for everyone.
I'm going home to visit my family in a week, and there's this one photograph I want so badly to dig up: it's me, in the house in Springfield, dressed as a pharoah, false beard and all. I've decided that if I can find that picture, I definitely want to make it my author photo for my first book.
And I think a picture book in Akkadian would not find a wide audience. I like the idea, though!
I don't like the AI much, obviously.
I'm majoring in Illustration. Or at least, I will be. Every time I go to developmental advising I'm like, Can I declare my major yet and start taking specific classes? And they're like no, you're too early, this year is for exploration and deciding if you REALLY, REALLY, SUPER DUPER EXTRA SPECIAL want to take it. I guess a lot of kids go to PNCA without a really clear idea of what they want to do, and then find out in foundation year. Or they originaly wanted photography but decided printmaking was cooler. I don't really care for photography, printmaking, ceramics, or painting, so I still want to be an Illustrator. Ceramics is fun enough, but I couldn't make a living at it. Illustration is basicaly what it sounds like: you get something, and you draw a picture for it. Bonus points if the picture is clever, or funny, or pretty. So like, the work I'll be looking for will be editorials, magazine covers (if I end up really good), maybe posters and ads, books. I really want to illustrate books.
Remember when we were really little and we decided that you would be a famous writer and I would illustrate all of them? Maybe the books will be in Cuniform. The Akkadian Code, or something.
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It seems a little weird that we're both still interested in the things we were interested in when we were seven. I don't think that's true for everyone.
I'm going home to visit my family in a week, and there's this one photograph I want so badly to dig up: it's me, in the house in Springfield, dressed as a pharoah, false beard and all. I've decided that if I can find that picture, I definitely want to make it my author photo for my first book.
And I think a picture book in Akkadian would not find a wide audience. I like the idea, though!
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