At risk of missing out on sharing everything I've done this summer, I'm going to jump right into my schedule for the year. I've only got two art classes this semester, shame shame... Oil painting (which is terrifying, but my teacher seems very determined to make it a learning experience at everyone's level) and character design! And so far, I LOVE Character design.
Here's the first warm-up we did for the year, a "Mark".
This Mark is a guy who we as a Character Design group spotted walking out on the Quad, watched for about a minute, and then drew from memory. The exercise is to make a character out of the person, using the most noticeable attributes…for this Mark, it was his heavy walk, skinny jeans, oversized backpack, and oversized hat.
Fun fun activity and I’m looking forward to more of these!
Besides my two art classes, I'm also taking Pearl of Great Price, Dinosaurs, and Art History. My PoGP professor is an Egyptologian as well as a scriptorian and so far, his desired balance of academic study with religious study is right up my alley. I'm VERY excited for that class. My Dinosaurs professor is a working paleontologist and every lecture we've had so far has been utterly fascinating. He's also a bit eccentric, as all paleontologists apparently are, and so it's really fun.
So far, I'm in for a good year! And I'm VERY glad that my backpack doesn't seem to ever be as heavy as poor Mark's.
