January 26

Today in class we learned more about this first assignment. When we first got the assignment last week, I was a little intimidated by it (still am) because i'm not really sure how creative I am. My major is intimidating to me actually. I'm a graphic design major, which means I am getting a bachelors in Fine Arts. Honestly right now when I think Fine Arts, I think ughh. What am I doing in this major? I'm really not one of those really "artsy" kinds of people who go to art galleries for fun and make art pieces for fun. I really don't even know anything about graphic design, i've never taken a graphic design class. So why did I choose this? I've always kind of enjoyed drawing and I think i'm decently good at it, and I enjoyed film class in high school. I enjoyed the digital stuff, so I thought digital art. I originally planned on just trying it out, but I have the gem state scholarship and if I change my major, the scholarship goes with it. Anyways so that was some background info, now back to my original thought.

When we saw more examples of student's work I began thinking of different ideas for my own. Once we got into our lab section and I looked at my previous sketches from the paper exercise, I realized I liked my twisted paper look still. As of right now I decided on sticking with that idea and now am trying to figure little details out. I'm going to have a wire skeleton and have something like foil or plastic wrap as the skin. I don't want the skin to be translucent though because i'm going to have part of the skeleton showing anyways. The whole skeleton isn't going to be wrapped, but the skin will either have the look of falling off (because I want it hanging) or it will just gradually end with not everything covered. I'm kind of excited to get working on this to see how it's going to look. I may start this idea and it ends up not working out and I'll have to try something else, who knows! I love seeing the finished projects. That's one reason why I like drawing, or film, because you start with nothing and end up with something that you're usually proud of and really feel you accomplished something.

One last thing, I am also intimidated by the student work we saw, and students ideas from my class. It seems like everyone is doing these super abstract pieces that would be really cool to see and I feel mine is so simple. I like simple though, so I shouldn't be discouraged because of that, but still. I do.