"bragging about my drawing class" time
My drawing prof asked me and about three other people from our class today to make the decision by next week whether we wanted to follow the syllabus for the rest of the quarter and do three more projects, or if we (the four of us) wanted instead to work on a 30x40ish drawing in charcoal or graphite for about 100 hours of work of a crazy mother of all still lifes for the rest of the quarter to enter into a contest next quarter. It means we wont use most of the rest of our paper we bought, or the pastels, but it is a chance to have the school buy our piece from us and use it as a poster, or just win some monies/ awards. For the past three years someone from his class has won and he has judged these things before.
So yay. I am one of the best in the class. Joyful joy-ness time. He also asked the four of us to enter a portfolio of 5 pieces into a contest due Feb 15th too. Hence I was at class until 8:15 tonight >.< learning to make a nice portfolio.
My pencil drawing is coming out well too. It amazed me because I haven't done graphite since 10th grade except for contour drawings. And when we hung them up today to do working crit, mine was the first pointed out by him and the class that it was coming along really well and stood out against the rest. Lol, he said no stumping on this drawing, but during class today he came over and handed me a stump and was like don't tell anyone, but just use it and go really slowly and tediously with it so it comes out right... because typically he thinks graphite stumped out looks like crap, but he complimented me on it after i was about half way done with one of the cameras I was doing. I'm so glad he let me because before I did that part looked like crap, I don't care what everyone was saying. And I'm glad he trusted me to pull it off too. I like that part a lot now. The metal actually looks like metal, and the clock looks more like it has glass over the front of it. Now I need to finish the aluminum cans and the shadows on the wall mostly.
I promise I will have pictures up of it by the end of the week. Sunday I'll have it finished for sure (since its due Monday, and I'll be out of town Friday through Saturday night or possibly Sunday afternoon-ish.
So yay. I am one of the best in the class. Joyful joy-ness time. He also asked the four of us to enter a portfolio of 5 pieces into a contest due Feb 15th too. Hence I was at class until 8:15 tonight >.< learning to make a nice portfolio.
My pencil drawing is coming out well too. It amazed me because I haven't done graphite since 10th grade except for contour drawings. And when we hung them up today to do working crit, mine was the first pointed out by him and the class that it was coming along really well and stood out against the rest. Lol, he said no stumping on this drawing, but during class today he came over and handed me a stump and was like don't tell anyone, but just use it and go really slowly and tediously with it so it comes out right... because typically he thinks graphite stumped out looks like crap, but he complimented me on it after i was about half way done with one of the cameras I was doing. I'm so glad he let me because before I did that part looked like crap, I don't care what everyone was saying. And I'm glad he trusted me to pull it off too. I like that part a lot now. The metal actually looks like metal, and the clock looks more like it has glass over the front of it. Now I need to finish the aluminum cans and the shadows on the wall mostly.
I promise I will have pictures up of it by the end of the week. Sunday I'll have it finished for sure (since its due Monday, and I'll be out of town Friday through Saturday night or possibly Sunday afternoon-ish.