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So, we went over my portfolio tonight in Drawing class, and I got an A- on everything except my Mark-Making assignment, which I got a B+ on. This is good. The different things he didn’t like about each of the sections amounted mostly to my inability to do things I haven’t been taught yet (shading before he taught shading, or how to set up a composition without it ever being mentioned in class) or with differences of opinion (on the Mark-Making project I created a rigid border that intentionally boxed in all the other marks, in an attempt to show that even within such a tiny prison there could still be a lot of motion, energy, and differentiation. The teacher’s feedback was that the border made the whole thing feel boxed in, and although there was a lot of motion and energy in the piece, he wished it wouldn’t have been trapped and confined. I tried explaining that that trapping was the point when i turned it in the first time weeks ago, and I tried again tonight, but I’m still wrong and he’s still right), or worst of all with my inability to draw straight lines freehand on some of the perspective assignments. I have never in my life been able to make a straight line, for years even with the assistance of rulers. I have adapted my work outside of class around this, but am held accountable for it in class. oh well. As long as I pass, as long as I do well enough that they let me keep taking classes, at least until I get into the painting classes i want to take, that’s fine. We’ll see how the rest of the class goes….
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So, due to my Maui vacation, I missed two of the three classes where the teacher actually went over perspective in class. Still, I’ve had a good understanding of perspective since elementary school, so I was able to understand what he was teaching by looking at the other students drawings. The only difficulty was the “busy work” that took up all of my weekend with doing careful drawing after careful drawing. We also had a “final” basic perspective drawing that was due today that combined the elements that we learned from the other assignments. (For those of you paying attention, this means that I did the final assignment that comprised what I learned from the other assignments before I began the other assignments, since its deadline had not yet passed and was thus the most important, temporally.) About half an hour before the end of class last Wednesday the teacher advised us that he would like to see shading on the “final” drawing, and ran through about 5 minutes “teaching” shading. He said we wouldn’t be graded on our shading. We should begin actually learning how to do shading in two or three weeks. So, I did the perspective work, no problem. I was very careful to have a clean drawing with no smudges or unintended marks on the page, which can be quite difficult when working with a giant triangle and T-square resting on your drawing the whole time. I went over everything more than once, with increasingly soft leaded pencils, so that I could remove any early mistakes and only emphasize the lines that were good. Then I timidly followed his basic shading instructions, not wanting to make my 6-8 hours of careful perspective work to be ruined by my untrained inability to shade. Today in class, we…
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Last night I worked four hours on homework for tonight’s 2D Design class, and I just got done with almost 5 hours of homework for tomorrow’s Drawing class. It’s fucking late. I will be up trying to get ready for work in … four hours? Fucking homework. Worse, the glue isn’t holding the thing down properly, so it looks like carp (to me). I’ll take a picture of it for you, and .. when/if we can figure out how to get pictures out of this camera, you can see it. Fucking homework can suck my fucking cock, mother-fucker….
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