Sequential art in the gallery is go!
So my crit on the 'You Couldn't Imagine' piece went extremely well. Better than I thought. In fact, it was everything I could have possibly wanted in a crit. The piece itself was critiqued fairly simply. They explained that the fact it was paneled made it a lot more interesting. My brushwork was complimented, particularly on the way I rendered the bird. There were some inconsistencies in the tree with the detail. I originally wanted the tree to be flat, but in areas of one panel, brush strokes were quite visible and could have easily been interpreted as a half assed attempt at rendering bark that wasn't applied in the other panels. I admitted that was mainly due to the fact that acrylic ink was a new beast to me and that I hadn't touched a brush in ages--and that I was excited to get better control over the medium as I used it more. Beyond that, there wasn't much more spoken about the work itself, which I was totally content with. Because here, I wasn't presenting an image, more than I was presenting an idea for future works. I explained the idea of using the gallery walls as the support for my masonite panels in the same manner the blank page was used as a support for comic book panels. Using the gallery as a space to present sequential art with very different, much more lenient boundaries than the typical comic page. From there, the crit took off as the instructor went crazy with tossing potential ideas and ways I could go about doing this in interesting, unusual manners--and a lot of the ideas he threw at me, I hadn't even considered.
The crit left me feeling extremely excited for future work. And that's exactly what a critique should do. My god, it's so refreshing from my god-awful experience last year. This is fantastic!
After crit, I went to get some issues sorted out with my student loans. I've bitched about my situation in another journal before--but for my instructor to read: I hadn't yet received my loans due to a screw up on their behalf. After receiving a letter from the school threatening to kick me out by the 25th, I went and talked to the registrar and had it all figured out. She gave me a 300$ emergency loan so that I'd have some cash to pay for supplies until my loans finally come in (hopefully before the end of the month!). Which is excellent, because I was absolutely broke to the point of being incapable of affording anything, including text books, reprotexts, and supplies for assignments. Which left me incredibly stressed out (midterm exams and papers referring to texts in textbooks have been a little rocky, but somehow, I've been able to baffle with bullshit. Which...baffles me, actually). But it seems all is going well at this point, and I'll finally have the funds to actually work on some of the ideas I've conceptualized! Yessss.
In other news, some inspiration--Jon Foster:
The crit left me feeling extremely excited for future work. And that's exactly what a critique should do. My god, it's so refreshing from my god-awful experience last year. This is fantastic!
After crit, I went to get some issues sorted out with my student loans. I've bitched about my situation in another journal before--but for my instructor to read: I hadn't yet received my loans due to a screw up on their behalf. After receiving a letter from the school threatening to kick me out by the 25th, I went and talked to the registrar and had it all figured out. She gave me a 300$ emergency loan so that I'd have some cash to pay for supplies until my loans finally come in (hopefully before the end of the month!). Which is excellent, because I was absolutely broke to the point of being incapable of affording anything, including text books, reprotexts, and supplies for assignments. Which left me incredibly stressed out (midterm exams and papers referring to texts in textbooks have been a little rocky, but somehow, I've been able to baffle with bullshit. Which...baffles me, actually). But it seems all is going well at this point, and I'll finally have the funds to actually work on some of the ideas I've conceptualized! Yessss.
In other news, some inspiration--Jon Foster: