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I feel kinda badly but I was lazy and left my toned/tan drawings from Monday in class, then I left my big sketchbooks (Layout bond) in class and Wednesday I didn't upload my character design to my USB, and yesterday I didn't take a photo of my final head/hands drawing for class. I did stuff my face on some awesome guava macaroons and bruschetta though (with brie), and am really looking forward to buying some WED this weekend. Also, it's official..I'm taking a new oils class that I'm excited for because I LOVE painting. I can't decide which I like most; drawing/painting or sculpting. They all feed off each other I think, and I love them all so much! I hope that I can continue doing all of them, and get really good at all of them. I was reading a blog where a retired actor said "Acting is a way of life". I feel that way about art and design. It's a way of life. Pianist H0r0witz has t his great quote where he says when he doesn't practise for a day, he notices, then two days, his wife notices. Any more than that, the world notices. It's absolutely something I intend to do for the rest of my life, and there is really no excuse to not draw, paint, sculpt, design, research with your eyes or create a thought process and store ideas EVERY DAY. I feel like it's an integral part of humanity and who we are and what we do. It makes us alive and emote and leave a footprint in a positive way. Anyways, enough of my weird "Pe@ce and L0ve" writings (yeah, my parents are from that time and they kind of raised me that way haha)...have a great day! OH, I started this GREAT class on Wed. The teacher is one of THE top four designers in the film industry. In fact, he's so busy he's teaching our class AND has to fly out of state at least once a month to work on a show (which is why we have a weird schedule). But I am learning a LOT from him. He showed us a demo and what I noticed off the bat is the guy can DRAW!!!! One guy immediately said the class was too advanced for him and that he 'needed to learn more about PS' (even though we're seriously just drawing..and that's what the prof said "we're going to do a LOT of drawing in this class). I threw my hands up in the air and said YESS!!! excitedly. And he draws in a way that pushes and pulls the forms...it was amazing! Before he has class, he says he makes it a habit to talk about design and what makes good design in his opinion. He said every class EXPECT it, and he'll give us a list of movies and designs to look at that we SHOULD know...it should be part of our vocabulary visually and understand the choices made by the designer. He spoke about areas of rest and areas of noise/busy areas. He said that the shape based-PS business of "this is cool but I can't tell what's going on" is not what he considers to be design, and he thinks that in a sense that that is getting phased out because people are getting tired of it. What he says about design is part of the tenets that I learned EVEN in lighting design, so I thought that it was GREAT. I knew that I had found a good thing, because even in lighting design we spoke about an excess of colour and 'cleansing the palette'. Before you learned colour in lighting, you learned about focus and intent. Your audience has to know where to look. You learned about the attributes of a light and what it does (convey mood, rhythm, etc). He also said, "your job is not to WOW the audience. It's to create something that may not exist, but COULD. There has to be a sense of believability". I TOTALLY agree. Sometimes we get so caught up in the surface, the first layer and the 'cool' factor. But then how is it relatable to the audience and WHY should a person CARE if they can't relate to it? Nothing is by coincidence or random. You have a visual language and aesthetic that has intent so that the audience even though unconscious responds emotionally to the lines, the shape, textures, etc. I LOVE that.