sfumato

no mental explorations today. School has started and with it responsibility.

i'm excited about my classes. i'm taking an intro to film/video class where i'm hoping i can learn the editing software. i think editing might be really really fun. i'm very excited by the possibilities of editing. it might just be my thing, but i won't know till i do it.

and Barron Storey's sequential illustration class. Comics! yay!

no Illustration classes. (except that one) i'm thinking of changing my major, so i'm holding off taking any more in that sequence. Illustration is quite dull in my school. Illustration 1, then Illustration 2, then Illustration 3 and so on. No interesting class titles like the other majors get. i'm getting more turned off of the whole thing.It seems too limited now to me. i'm just not interested in editorial illustration, for magazines and the like.

Plus i got tired of teachers telling us illustration is dying, threatened by photography and clip art, the golden age was back in the twentieth century, pay scales haven't gone up in years, you have to aggressively market yourself, blah blah blah. i decided maybe to take them at their word and get the fuck out. Last couple of illustration teachers i had made the process of making art seem so... joyless. i don't know.