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myurbandreami want to go buy a sketchbook and ten packs of vine charcoal, because charcoal sketching is my new favorite thing to do. i was searching for a pen to do some sketches for my professor and i came across a stub of extra-dark soft vine charcoal in my bag. so i used it to sketch, on white trace paper, and i loved it. the mess, the flexibility- it's so easy to erase and start over, and i feel like i'm actually getting into the drawing, i'm literally getting my hands dirty. it just really worked for me. thank god i'm not allergic to charcoal like i am to graphite.
the only problem is getting the drawings to stop smudging once i get one that i like. ^___^
in other news, lent has begun! i keep thinking that today is monday or tuesday for some reason- it just doesn't feel like a thursday to me, i don't know why. this week has gone by so fast. i did get to go to an ash wednesday service yesterday- and skipped the second half of studio on a pin-up day to do it- which was cool. i didn't realize until then how much i miss father dan's preaching; he's very good. i think it helps that over half the congregation is college students.
spring break in two weeks!!!! i can't wait, i have so much to catch up on. i need to work out a schedule of all the midterm projects and tests i have coming up, because i know they're approaching, and i'm getting kind of subconsciously worried about it. i know my pols midterm is next thursday, and taylor's midterm is on the 9th, and our thesis paper in studio is due the monday after break. and the deadline for surf is the wednesday after break...
....and then there's my portfolio, and applying for jobs, and wedding planning to do.... it's all lovely.
but today was a good day. breakfast, class, built a model, lunch and conversation with jim, work, sketching, desk crit, and now class is over! it's dinner time, and i have structures homework.
ta-ta!
the only problem is getting the drawings to stop smudging once i get one that i like. ^___^
in other news, lent has begun! i keep thinking that today is monday or tuesday for some reason- it just doesn't feel like a thursday to me, i don't know why. this week has gone by so fast. i did get to go to an ash wednesday service yesterday- and skipped the second half of studio on a pin-up day to do it- which was cool. i didn't realize until then how much i miss father dan's preaching; he's very good. i think it helps that over half the congregation is college students.
spring break in two weeks!!!! i can't wait, i have so much to catch up on. i need to work out a schedule of all the midterm projects and tests i have coming up, because i know they're approaching, and i'm getting kind of subconsciously worried about it. i know my pols midterm is next thursday, and taylor's midterm is on the 9th, and our thesis paper in studio is due the monday after break. and the deadline for surf is the wednesday after break...
....and then there's my portfolio, and applying for jobs, and wedding planning to do.... it's all lovely.
but today was a good day. breakfast, class, built a model, lunch and conversation with jim, work, sketching, desk crit, and now class is over! it's dinner time, and i have structures homework.
ta-ta!
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Date: 2009-02-27 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-27 01:00 am (UTC)i've heard about using hairspray and other special-made sprays to make charcoal stick. if i do actually continue this trend, that might be worth checking out- thanks!
and YES!!! i haven't seen you in ages! my only free time during the week is tuesdays and thursdays 11-12, so if you're free then i'd love to have lunch with you next week. the rest of the time i'm in class or at work. let me know! (and i hope you don't mind if jim is there, because it's also his only chance to see me during weekdays. *grins*)