RISD 2nd Semester

It's only been two weeks into second semester but it already feels like months. Funny how I only feel like this at RISD.

But anywho, loving my classes even should they be quite work extensive. But actually, I have less work or I guess I'm less stressed this semester than last. Nonetheless, I have to pull allnighters from the very beginning. My work ethic is faltering as spring nears!

This is just an overview of the past two weeks.

 Design class we started immediately with color theory. My teacher is giddy and from Pratt which apparently most RISD students look down on because of their foundation curriculum being interpreted as literally a joke. I already feel that in the class which should only make this class work extensive but not too difficult concept-wise. She has us doing busy work like cutting shapes from colored paper that cost more than a textbook. $150 are you serious?! Are we even going to use more than an inch of this after the first two projects?! /flips table.

Went to the Waterman building to view some projects from wintersession courses. I was in awe at the busts people made in some drawing class DRAWING CLASS?! Ugh I want to do sculpture as well!

First design project. Create the illusion of transparencies
when two shapes with different colours overlay by finding the medium tone.
Colour theory I no understand! Heavily inspired by the great Kandinsky.

I liked this one by my friend. The ambiguity of the blue shape
is very interesting; could be a bird or a fish with its tongue hanging out.

This is one by my classmate. Loved the concept which gives the abstraction
of a festive crowd.

 

Other projects.

Second design project: mixing acrylic paint to achieve the colours.
LOL The hand of an art student.

We finally declared majors a week back. I had been very very very indecisive and had been doubting about my major for a while now. It was either between illustration or animation. I attended the Illustration meeting and sneaked into the Senior studios with my friends as I had missed their show earlier that week. Luckily, there was a senior working there who invited us in to see all the works that were laid out in the many cubicles scattered about small room. It was AMAZING. I was so in awe that I just kept walking around, taking in everything.

GAHH LOOK AT THIS! THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! IT'S A FRICKIN PAINTING OH GOD!

OMFG a Rembrant study?! This is phenomenal!

After that night I pretty much was convinced that Illustration was what I wanted to do. I saw so many possibilities. I know that many people in the other majors often look down on Illustration because it's basically drawing, the foundation of all the other majors. But I saw the works of the seniors on the walls that had such luminosity. There were character designs, beautifully rendered backgrounds that you find in animations or storybooks. There's so much out there for you to create and I want to be part of that. 

3D got off to a rocky start. First day we dove into our project of hanging drapery off the walls and having to recreate
the invert of that structure with paper. What is the point? I have no idea.
I'm pretty sure there was asbestos on the ceilings.....

Drawing... my teacher is Tom Mills, claimed by others to be one of the hardest teachers RISD
has ever witnessed. Eccentric, vulgar and very nit-picky, Tom Mills wanted mainly
very VERY conceptual things which I was not prepared for. My teacher last semester was all about
realistic, conventional artwork, landscapes mainly which drove me mad. I thought I could draw what I wanted now
but apparently not. He liked it when you tore the paper and went nuts with the IDEA of an object.

He never wanted to see the object depicted in the drawings. OH GOD!

But I like his class... because he's funny and we constantly draw from the nude models.
I like figure drawing best having had to draw landscapes for the entire time last semester.

So yeah, he went nuts with that paper ring to the right by someone else.
He loved it because it captured the essence of the person's object that they brought in last week.
I think I don't like drawing that much LOL

so basically this picture i drew was completely ignored because it wasn't very conceptual.
it was merely illustrative. UGjdklfaj He liked one where I just smeared the charcoal on the paper
and then wet it all over. It was so bad gahhh whatever.