I'm in an Intro to Illustration class this semester and I'm really enjoying it.
I think my school has an...interesting way of going about things, but I'm not required to have a minor for my major. I think it's because I have an emphasis? I don't know, and I'm not going to ask for a minor.
I had been working towards a minor (which is really two "clusters", at my school. See what I mean? Don't ask.) in art, and now that I don't have to formally take these classes, it is so nice.
I often overhear other people in my class talk about how much they dislike it because it's time consuming or whatever they choose to complain about, and I have never felt that way.
But then again, no one is making me take this class. It's fun being the only non-art major in there, and I have this great group of friends. We all sit at the same table and on some weekends, we draw while we watch movies.
This is how learning should be, and I feel bad for the other people in my class who feel like this is just another stupid obligation.
I love love love our professor. I've signed up to take Entertainment Illustration in the fall, and then he will be teaching an Animation class in the winter. I'm trying to make plans so I can stay over the break and take that class from him, because yes please.
He'll probably be so tired of seeing me three semesters in a row, haha.
We've had some cool assignments, and I realized that I haven't posted any of them.
The first two were for this "Master Copy" assignment, where we had to copy an original piece by a famous artist. I chose JC Leyendecker.
An advantage that almost all of the art major have is that they've taken a media experimentation class, so they've had much more exposure to different mediums.
This was my first time working with charcoal, and I was extremely nervous about it, but I'm actually proud of how it turned out.
The last piece is for a book cover project. I did mine on Everything is Illuminated because it is wonderful.
We just finished another project, which I will post soon. I just wanted to add one more thing that my teacher suggested to me.
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