Wow. This whole design school thing is pretty rad. Tonight, I spent the evening watching J play video games, and drinking a nice red wine my aunt gave me. Oh yeah, and I was drawing his hands and feet. Maybe that sounds creepy, but I was working on proportion studies. The hands and feet in my renderings always need a bit of work, so this was a good exercise for me. I love that my homework involves watching J play video games and drinking wine. Hurray for grad school!
I started off with his feet, which, if you know him very well, you’ll understand that it was torture for him to hold his feet (mostly) still for an hour. The top of the toes is a little too square, but I’ll blame his movement, and call this one halfway decent. That and the fact that I was sitting next to him and the foreshortening thing with his leg just wasn’t jiving for me too well. (Also? the work “jiving” has THREE dotted letters, and looks very silly on screen!)
Next I moved on to his hands, which turned out a bit better, considering they were moving much more than his feet were! He was playing Borderlands on his Xbox with a friend, so his thumbs were all over that controller. I did my best. =)
Last I tried working on my own hand, which is what I think we were supposed to be doing from the beginning. This was exceedingly difficult, since I use both of my hands to draw, and I’m usually keeping my kneaded eraser warm in my left hand while sketching with my right. So yeah, not my best, but it’ll do.
In the shop this week, we got off to a pretty slow start, but now I’m patterning a bustle petticoat! I worked up a preliminary pattern for it yesterday, and started my mock-up today. The pattern needs a little work, but I’ve got a little over a week before it needs to be finished. Once I get it done, we’re going to be giving it to our beginning sewing construction students, and they’ll be sewing them to use for Phantom of the Opera in February. Crazy! I won’t say where we got the petticoat to begin with, but I will say that it’s a nice garment, and I’m glad we won’t be paying that much for the rest of them once I duplicate it.
At any rate, grad school is going really well. I have some finished renderings of the hat and shoe I designed last week, but they’re at my office, so I’ll need to bring them home to scan so I can upload here. I honestly can’t believe we’ve only been down here in TN for six or so weeks. It feels like I’ve been here a year already! I’m loving the cooler weather we’ve been having on and off this week—I had my screen door open all day today, and it feels divine in here! Plus, there’s nothing like an electricity bill after you can turn off the central air for a few days—yay!
J’s still looking for a new job, and I know he’ll find one that’s perfect for him, but it’s a little stressful. He’s got a couple of great leads, though, and I can’t wait for him to has a job he enjoys again.
In other news, Penske, the moving truck company we used, finally sent us some money to have our dressers refinished! I have a pair of mid-century dressers that were my grandparents’, and they were damaged pretty badly during the move after the truck leaked. The water got under the veneer, and then once we hit the hot weather down here in TN, it bubbled up and was not very pretty. It’s been a six-week-long ordeal, but the refinishing company picked up the dressers this morning, and I can’t wait to see how they’ll look once they’re done! It’s going to be another three or four weeks, but I can wait, now that I know they’re being worked on. I’m also hoping to purchase a new computer in the next week or so, so hopefully that’ll make the blogging/photo-uploading process a little easer, and I can get away from the cell phone photos. Hurray!
There’s a festival in the “Historically Hip” neighborhood of Cooper-Young this weekend (it’s their term, not mine!), and I’m excited to go. It’ll be lots of live music, as well as artsy/crafty events. I hope you all have something equally enjoyable to do this weekend! For now, though, I’m out.
Ciao, all!
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