He reminds me of my uncle before he went to prison.
So I had my first class at ACAD today and it was certainly not what I expected. I walked into a grey room with grey floors and an enormous grey block kind of left of centre. Around the block, in a sort-of circle, were what looked like small benches with a short board at the back and a tall one at the front, and two slats in between. There were maybe 10 or 15 people in the room, all straddling their benches, all reading the same sheet quietly. It was only after about 20 minutes that the instructor came in. His name was Mark Mullin, and he was the spitting image of Greg Kinnear. He talked for a while, mostly reading the sheet we all got aloud, then took us into the still life room to get ready for our first project. Each student got to take something out of the room; a plastic deer, a skull, a fisher-price telephone, children's chairs, a rocking horse, a sculpted head on a stick, a broken mannequin, a driftwood stump, etc. We set them up on the enormous grey block and got to working. Draw it with varying line weight, he said. Crap. When I was done, it looked like I'd been drawing with my eyes closed. Everyone else did super. It's very humbling to be in a class where you're probably the youngest student, and by far the least experienced. I had to keep reminding myself that these were art students; they weren't just doing this to fill an extra time slot. They were all terribly talented and passionate about their craft, and would probably want to keep doing this for the rest of their life. I just hope I improve before the end of the term.
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I doubt that anything you make could look like crap. AKA, WAaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than me. You'll improve, you want to, so you will. I have all my faith in you!
Aww Nomad, I think you will do fine, tis probably just nerves/the new place, experience etc. and once you get more comfortable with it, you will be able to spit out plenty o' good stuff. So yes. But that is fancy that you have actually started and such.
Hermy
You will do wonderfully. I know how you feel, what with me being in theatre school, and I promise it gets better. Talk to people, and you will find that many of them feel the same way as you.
So being me, I was all 'ooo, it would be so very amusing to leave a sarcastically mean comment confirming all your worst fears just because everyone else is so very encouraging'. But look at me, I totally reconsidered. In all honesty, I am so very excited that you've started classes! I guess maybe it's different (I like how I relate all fields of art-syness back to music, but anyways), but being around people of all different levels (especially people that are better, actually) is really the best form of motivation for me. But maybe you crazy visual artist sorts have other secrets. Possibly involving koosh balls, just because. But I wish you luck! And I'm betting it'll get less intimidating. Anyways, I am hereby ending this comment, lest I expose my social shortcomings *cough*.
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