To put things in perspective

» Written on October 30, 2010 at 6:12 AM «

I’ve been here now for about two months? Three? Things are slowly but surely settling down, with me (more or less) working out a routine of sorts for my never-ending assignments, my apartment maintenance, and my regular re-assurances to my parents that I am eating/living fine.

It’s been gratifying to make the middle of the semester without handing in any assignment late thus far, I suppose: I am actually rather relieved that the mid-term so-called “exams” were nothing more than glorified quizzes of sorts, in that they were probably designed for people coming out of Primary 6 rather than the goddamn Army: it meant that, although I spent a grand total of absolutely no time at all studying for them, I managed to come out with some rather impressive scores (in my opinion).

In any rate, far better than some other students who love to talk in class, love to ask the tutors questions, and still hand in assignments late.

Unfortunately, this week kind of marks the end of mid-terms, and even with Halloween somewhat mitigating the workload this time, once again I am faced with the daunting task of sketchbooks and writing assignments, the former being far more intimidating than it should be.

So, in keeping with the spirit of this post’s title, here’s a few images from my most recent Biology assignment, which was to draw environment scenes in 1, 2 and 3-point perspective (Yeah, I have no fucking clue what that has to do with Biology either.)

Of all the images I did, I think I’m only sort of satisfied with this particular one for some reason. Not sure why. It might be the level of detail, but I don’t think it’s just that, somehow.

This was, I admit, real lazy. I did have plans to give the side of the pyramid a lot more engraving and detail, but I was running out of time to finish and just moved on.

And while technically correct, this kind of shows why it’s important to have good composition laid out before you place your fucking vanishing points: it’s correct (I think), but not interesting at all. Plus the fact that I’m not very good at value for now.

Working in 3-point perspective, is, for me, highly annoying: I am always tempted to put perfect verticals instead of slanted ones because it’s fucking annoying to check for accuracy sometimes when you have to do it for every fucking line that you place, especially when it comes to windows (I gave up on some of those and just winged it, in case it wasn’t apparent)

Overall, I think my practice with the new speedpainting style I’m trying out is good, but I really wish I was in the other art instructor’s class, so that I could have a chance to develop it more, rather than the current one I’m in, which frankly isn’t as helpful as I imagined it should have been.

I’ve also given up doing my sketchbook assignments in school, for a myriad of reasons, the foremost one being that I keep getting chased from classroom to classroom whenever other lessons are about to be conducted. I mean, yes, I’m technically not supposed to be in there, but I’m silent, I just need a 3×3′ space to myself, it’s not like we’re in a fucking bomb shelter, are we? I guess Americans just love their personal space.

There’s also another reason which I won’t go into too much detail here at the moment, but let’s just say it involves other students. Specifically, annoying ones.

And back to work.

   

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