Prepare for disaster

School has return after a short two week break between summer and fall sessions.

I’m hoping that this semester will be “portfolio building” one. And as I do every semester (it’s become tradition) I’m going to promise to update my blog more often, and then probably get utterly slammed with homework and work work, and not update it again until possibly a week after fall semester lets out… But a boy can dream.

Today’s class was Drawing the Fantastic Figure. We’re on the Cintiq in that class, and today I realized that I would die a happy man if it were at the hands of a Cintiq. I’ve never used one before but it was surprisingly natural feeling and easy to use. We draw from a live model, and that’s that. Just do work.

Bellow is what I did in class today, just a few 5’s and 10’s. But the homework is to take one of those poses and fantastic-asize it into a mummy. Pretty cool assignment

I also lost a lot of faith in my school lately. It seems like every year the communication between departments and administration gets worse and worse, so the organization of just about everything goes down with it. You would think that with the amount of money that I pay (the government pays) that the school would have their shit together. For example, over the past two weeks I’ve received 3 phone calls, and 4 emails about class schedule changes, I even got a call in the morning about one class changing, then not even 12 hours later I get an email about the same class changing times again…!?!...ALL messages from different people, none of which are the instructor OR my advisor. And today’s class was one big cluster F too. But I’ll quit the ranting for now. Character Design tomorrow… prepare for disaster.