it has been 4 days since i have gone back to school and i feel that i have been so out of the schooling loop.
these days has been non-stop getting back of results, and going through of papers. it must be because of the sufficient enough of sleep i had been getting since the start of the holidays, i feel that i am able to stay focused and awake during my lessons.
Today is however, my best day so far and i have been kept quite happy. firstly, i must established the reason why i have been feeling the heat. it is due to coursework and that i felt that i was stuck (huihuan told me this was probably what they meant by "artist block"!! haha) and unable to move on despite the tight schedule.
So, yesterday, i went to find my inspiration and i quite gladly found it in the National Library, 8th floor, the arts reference section. i came back really contented yet tired from that sudden overload of character designs. it was really interesting though. 🙂 and i must really thank my parents for spending the evening there with me just so i could get the inspiration to clear that "blockage". The result: i managed to design one of my characters and start the small mock-up of it. and… Ms chan said that it was a good start. :))) and that has made me a happy person today, not the emo(which quite ironically is one of my character’s personality…) feeling i felt the days before.
spent my free period before art talking with huijun and yilin and we discussed and shared our coursework details. i think it really helps to get second (and in our case, third too) opinions on your coursework even if it was from your friends and not your tutor. every advice helps and when you are so fixated on your own project, you tend not to be able to take a step back and view your ideas from the viewers point of view. that is when your friends come in. to tell you how they feel about what you will be presenting and whether they feel it represents the same thing to them as you would like them to think. This step is crucial yet so many of us fail to see it and it was only today that i realised how much good this little chit-chats can do.
Huijun and yilin also attempted to help me design a character, to really wild results. haha. it was fun. 🙂
i still wish that i could dream up characters so i don’t have to rack my brains though! Shima says that i will have to spend my every waking hour thinking of coursework and also i need to fear it in order to dream of it. that’s not quite happening now though, i am enjoying it now!
these days has been non-stop getting back of results, and going through of papers. it must be because of the sufficient enough of sleep i had been getting since the start of the holidays, i feel that i am able to stay focused and awake during my lessons.
Today is however, my best day so far and i have been kept quite happy. firstly, i must established the reason why i have been feeling the heat. it is due to coursework and that i felt that i was stuck (huihuan told me this was probably what they meant by "artist block"!! haha) and unable to move on despite the tight schedule.
So, yesterday, i went to find my inspiration and i quite gladly found it in the National Library, 8th floor, the arts reference section. i came back really contented yet tired from that sudden overload of character designs. it was really interesting though. 🙂 and i must really thank my parents for spending the evening there with me just so i could get the inspiration to clear that "blockage". The result: i managed to design one of my characters and start the small mock-up of it. and… Ms chan said that it was a good start. :))) and that has made me a happy person today, not the emo(which quite ironically is one of my character’s personality…) feeling i felt the days before.
spent my free period before art talking with huijun and yilin and we discussed and shared our coursework details. i think it really helps to get second (and in our case, third too) opinions on your coursework even if it was from your friends and not your tutor. every advice helps and when you are so fixated on your own project, you tend not to be able to take a step back and view your ideas from the viewers point of view. that is when your friends come in. to tell you how they feel about what you will be presenting and whether they feel it represents the same thing to them as you would like them to think. This step is crucial yet so many of us fail to see it and it was only today that i realised how much good this little chit-chats can do.
Huijun and yilin also attempted to help me design a character, to really wild results. haha. it was fun. 🙂
i still wish that i could dream up characters so i don’t have to rack my brains though! Shima says that i will have to spend my every waking hour thinking of coursework and also i need to fear it in order to dream of it. that’s not quite happening now though, i am enjoying it now!
ramblings. 