There's much too much to cover from the past few days so... I guess I'm just not going to. I'll just give a brief overview I suppose? I'm much too tired today to slave over a keyboard for a few hours to put forth a beautiful post that documents what's been up in my life for the past... I don't even remember... days.
Well, in 2D design last week, Ania didn't show up. But, nevertheless, it turned out to be one of the best classes I've had at Cooper for the last year and a bit. We had a woman--whose name I sadly cannot remember--come in to teach us how to book bind. How this has to with 2D design? I have no idea (actually I do, but I'm too much of a bumface to explain it). We learned how to make three kinds of books, all of which I plan to use in the near future.
Drawing, on the otherhand, was the biggest pain in my ass ever. It had all the things I hated: crystal drawing, ink wash, and bitchy TAs. As one could assume, drawing a crystal is perhaps one of the hardest things to do, since a crystal is just shapes of different tonal values pieced together side by side. There are no lines when you draw a crystal, at least traditionally. And to top it all off, we had to produce these shades with india ink. For those who have never used this medium before (and you are so damn lucky if you haven't), it's very difficult to master. You have to know how much water or how much ink to have one your brush as you paint. I hate it. Really, I hate any wet media, but that's another story for another time.
Thank god my professor John is the awesomest man on this planet (he looks and sounds like Fred Harrison, except he always wears a black trenchcoat) because, without him, it probably would've been the worst day ever. He has a very unconventional way of looking at drawings so, like any good art teacher would do, he let us explore the medium, letting us experiment with how the brush works and how the ink flows. It was actually almost fun.
But, let's not forget the last thing on my hate list I mentioned earlier. Right when I was messing around with the ink--doing what I was supposed to be doing because it was the assignment--the TA comes up to me and starts to explain how I'm doing it all wrong. She attempted to push me into drawing these crystals the conventional way (making blocks of colour). Me, being the push-over that I am, listened to her.
Funnily enough, during critique, John liked my other paintings better.
The TA also started screaming at this other girl too. Okay, I admit it, the girl was painting the same view and the same shades and highlights in the same place over and over again. And she was being pretty stubborn when the TA pointed it out to her. But the woman went ballistic on the girl. She started hardcore arguing, telling the girl how she was being dumb and how she doesn't know everything and how she should listen to her and to stop being so stubborn. I remmeber she said something like "You're so annoying! Why am I even arguing with you?! Sometimes I just want to choke you!"
"She's psychotic," whispered the girl who sat in front of me. And I couldn't agree more.
Nothing really happened in 3D today. So I won't really go into it. Hopefully tomorrow is more exciting...
See yuh,
Cody
PS- I was social today. I spoke to Sam(<3), the awesome TA, about Trainspotting. How sad is it that I'm making friends with the help of Sean Fo outside of Calhoun?
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