Artists

There's a photographer who already has a name for himself as a photographer, who is a first year student at my school, after heavy rectuitment. He's complained about the foundation classes (since he doesn't like art). His father, a well-known photographer, has complained. He's still hanging out in the foundation classes. And he still has to take 60-ish hours of studio and history classes for the degree (in addition to hte 30-ish photography classes).

I'm not really complaining. I took every art class I could in middle school, then had to drop out because the high school schedule couldn't accommodate my broad interests (Spanish, math/science, choir, band, and art). So something had to go. The middle school classes were drawing - so I have a bit of experience there, but nothing in charcoal. This class uses a wide range of drawing media, albeit more carcoal than anything else from the supply list. I don't know that I'll like charcoal - my daughter is willing to give me all of her charcoal - since she favors conte crayons. I may not like it either - but I'm using the classes as an opportunity to push myself to learn a broad range of techniques/media before I settle into what I want to do.

The two major projects both seem to require creating a montage drawing (although I can do comic book style so the montage is in separate panels). The yikes was mostly because of the quality of drawing of each element combined with merging them into a single cohesive picture. Although I'm fascinated by a few drawings in this style I've seen, it isn't anything I'm drawn to create. Since my 3D classmates were in all the foundation classes at once, I saw the single montage style pictures they created - but I didn't realize how much of the focus of the class was on this style (rather than it being one project out of several).