*sighs* And! i just found out today... after we have the fucking class... that the legs can't support the base. So! I have to do a new strategy. I think i'm just going to suspend it from something... i dunno...
Suspending it would be fucking awsome... cuz then i could work on details on the bottom w/ ppl able to seeing it. I guess i'm going to have to email the prof.
So walking thru the art department today, i come across a flier... Study Abroad in Florence...
Ah... Florence, in Europe, where art flourises... but then i remembered what my 3D prof told me about his experience in France and how they basically failed him out of the school...
If you want to be good in art, you have to be trained in the classics... Like, Michelangelo, Rodin (sculptor), the Romantizims Era... and the Impressionist studied it as well... and obviously other art movements. And if i went there.. what would i do?
Would i study modern? or classic?
Right now, it's anything goes. Not much instruction from the prof. and we basically are told a project and go. No directions... He just ok's our sketches... and off we go into building, creating, and distroying our pieces...
but w/ classical... we would be taught word for word as to what to do...
Yeah, it's great to learn from the past and whatnot... but if you learn the past how can you apply it to the future?
Future's for "updating" the past...
And for me, i think i'd rot in that kind of situtation.
I'm an abstract artist... and i can go into different materials easily... Paint, drawing, building... you name it. if i know how to do it, then i create something out of it.
True, i have taken the basics of drawing... contour lines.. negitive space. And basics are good. But if your self taught what is there else to do?
If you look at folk art, the artists rarely change, and it's those who have classical training who imatate those w/ the raw talent, the untaught talent.
So, when you're taught, you basically can go forward, or go backward.
I personally rather go forward.
CheZ