Clearer days, longer days
I have managed to get sick, again... I really hate my body for being so weak sometimes. Every single time I miss some sleep or step outside for a bit, I get sick. It never fails.
This time, my throat hurts like a bitch, and I barely have any voice. I'm drinking lots of tea to make up for it, but I don't know if it'll be any better tomorrow. I've been in pain since yesterday morning, and actually it had already started a bit during the night before, so... Wonderful.
I've also fallen a bit behind on school work. There's one huge project that I have barely started and that was due about 2 weeks ago. I'm going to try and rush it this week so I can turn it in before the short vacation break we have; if I get that done, then I'll just have some paintings left to catch up on, and I'll be good. If it weren't for that, I'd be good as far as school goes.
It was just dumb of me, but I was too lazy for the 3-weeks break we had in March, and didn't get my homework done in time. Good job, self. I really have no excuse to give, and just feel a lot of shame for it overall. But if I can catch up to the rhythm of this 3rd and last semester, it should work out and I shouldn't have trouble passing. I just need to give myself a big kick in the ass to finish this project and not fall behind in painting classes.
I feel like the school year flew by. It's as if it had started last month! I honestly don't think there's too much work or anything like that, though it might be a bit challenging when it comes to your self-motivation and organization. But I mean, I'm not one of the most work-driven students (in fact I'm very lazy) and I'm extremely disorganized, yet I think I'm going to make it, so it's definitely doable. We'll see. There's almost only one month left, I need to make it through! And afterwards, I have a few things planned in order to prepare for next year.
Friday night, friends from my class and I went to an event which the title translates into the Figure Drawing Night (Nuit du Modèle Vivant). It was organized by a model whom we met in our figure drawing class and who's probably the best I've seen at it; he takes very challenging poses and has a very still breathing, is never shaking, and can keep them for very long without problems. He's actually a performance artist in figure posing, and his record is to have posed for almost 24 hours non-stop (changing poses of course, but basically doing only this the whole time). The event I went to was a bit a case of this: 10 hours of models posing and us drawing all around them, with only a break in the middle to have something to eat. My friends and I lasted the whole night, from 7PM to 6AM the next morning. It was a blast! I didn't expect it to go by so fast, and although my drawings are for most of them pretty shitty and rushed, I feel like it was very productive to practice like that and watch how others work.
I met a few very nice people, which I'll try to keep in touch with (although I failed to ask for one of them's number or contact...). One of them is a studenf in the school I'll try applying in next year (Gobelins). He was extremely impressive and was painting with acrylic the whole evening, except for a few breaks where he was practicing hands/faces/feet/details with a very hard black-ink pen (the kind that makes your drawings look like shit if you don't trace definite lines in one move of the wrist; basically, that doesn't allow you to make mistakes or control your pressure). I got to talk a bit with him on the way back home at 6AM, and he was a very calm and quiet person, but nonetheless kind to speak to. The others were students at LISAA, a school I might consider if I look a bit more into it and that I feel satisfied with their 2D/3D courses. They were very nice as well, and it was cool to meet people from other schools like that.
Alright, enough for now, time to get back to my project. Hope I can get as much as possible done today and finish it by Thursday, that would be great.