rough sculpt again

I figured out that I could make my bathroom into a makeshift sculpting area and use my chopstick armature (thanks Mr. H0nsucker) so I will probably be doing more of these to get better and get my shapes better in general. It was a lot of fun and I almost burned my toast! Haha. Oh, and I went to an amazing seminar yesterday on storytelling by Mr. Br!@n McD0n@ld. He is the real deal and is used by major studios (!LM, D!sney, P!xar) as a story consultant and in training their story departments. I heard about him via a friend at a studio who received training of his and is writing his own comic (even though he also works as vis dev artist). The topic for the day was "T0 Hell @nd Back" about themes visually that are present in storytelling universally that make your story believable and make for great storytelling in general. A lot of imagery from D@nte's Inferno which was interesting, and he explained that conflict was essentially a story that as human beings we can learn from or that shows/satisfies our primal need for survival, which makes the audience CARE about your story and characters. Some very interesting stuff and I saw some clips from some of my favourite movies, too. Themes of Hell, the Devil and Angels were also discussed and how visual motifs give the audience ideas as to what is 'not right' and how to set up their expectations and follow through. Anyways, I'm off to buy some more clay! Yeahhhh!!!