Term 9, Brainstorm School Fall ’22 Part I, Week 1
For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum.
Retrospective
My last day at my job was Friday, so I’m officially a full time art student now. I’m taking three classes at Brainstorm school:
- AD1: Form Language
- WB1: Environment Sketching
- DC1: Design with Color and Light
Classes started yesterday. So far everything is review, but I still learn things when reviewing material I thought I knew. Art is a circular process. The first week of homework will be rough. I have some friends from out of town visiting so I won’t have enough time to finish all the homework to my full capability. Each class is 20 hours of homework, plus 9 hours a week of in class time, which is about a 70 hour-per-week commitment for the next 10 weeks.
Log
Drawings and Critiques
Eytan Zana study.
I didn’t finish this, and probably won’t have any time to work on it until Thanksgiving. Consider it abandoned.
Brainstorm AD1 homework.
Character form changes.
This assignment was to take a character and play with its proportions while keeping a good ratio of big, medium, and small shapes. I chose something I wouldn’t normally choose because I won’t have time this week to do anything more complicated. On one hand it feels bad because I’m doing the bear minimum, but on the other hand its teaching me to work faster. I could easily spend 40 hours on this page alone (if I chose a complicated character), and this class has 10 pages of homework this week.
Architecture form changes.
This is the same exercise, but cutting up an existing drawing into “lego” pieces and using them to build new buildings with interesting proportions. The original is in the top left.
