Yes yes, it’s that time of the year now.
All of my art classes have assigned their final projects.
Gawd I’m not looking forward to completing them all x_X
As “fun” as it can be, having all of the due dates within the same week and pretty much on the same day, sucks. >_<
Oh brother.
Well, here’s what’s going on.
Letterpress:
This is only our second project of the term, but it is going to require a lotta lotta work.
It doesn’t help that I had to go through basically 5 different mock-ups/ideas/versions of my project, and only now I’m getting started.
But at least I’m headed somewhere now. I was soooooo stumped on what to do earlier. That kinda sucked cause there wasn’t really anything I could start on…
If there isn’t a clear plan, it’s hard to start and you might end up wasting a lot of time working on something that won’t even be used. I think that’s what kinda sucks about these traditional processes. I mean, the same thing can happen with my digital classes, but at least I can work on it at home, and they’re easier to edit and doesn’t require quite so much manual labor/time.
Oh snap, I gotta buy the supplies too. (My wallet is crying…)
Anyways,
as far as what I’m working on, it’s a secret. 😉
BUT, I can tell you that it’s going to be a hard cover book. So that’s gonna be fun. I think as long as I get the printing done in a timely matter, I don’t have to worry about coming in to work on anything else.
Photography:
So we got assigned our final project topic: Theater and Expressive Language
We have to make 5-7 prints. Which I’ll probably end up doing only 5 to concentrate on quality, and not spend quite so much time in the darkroom. BUT, I’m a little confused on the required amount of prints because someone in the class only did 3 when we had the same range (5-7) for our last project and they weren’t in any trouble with the prof. Or at least from what I knew… We also have to mount all of them. Yay, my wallet will be crying even more… 
On top of that they want us to pick 7-9 of our best prints and add it to the portfolio.
The problem with that one is that I don’t think I have 7 that I like the best, which means I’ll have to print more… AHH…
I think this class takes up the most time in studio because you have to take pictures -> come in for an hour to develop the film -> print in the darkroom for about 3+ hours -> then let them dry over night -> come in and mount (which can take a while too) :[
If this was the only art class that I was taking, then I wouldn’t be complaining.. but since it’s not… x0
Sorry, don’t mean to complain or anything, but that’s how I feel x_x
Digital Letterform:
He didn’t quite assign it yet (that will be next Tuesday), but he mentioned something about combining what we’ve done and making a poster or something.
This class has taken up the least amount of my time this term, but it definitely has given me a challenge when it comes to stirring up ideas.
Overall though, I am not too worried about it.
But hopefully it won’t be too hard.
Intro to Animation:
So, we have to make an animation at least 2 minutes long, but with good quality of course. For the last couple projects I did them the night before xD, and they were barely 1 minute long. The panda one is the only one that I attempted to start early on.
HOWEVER, proving that I can get at least 40 sec worth done in one night with intense concentration, I think I could potentially get this done within a week. But thinking realistically, I’m not sure if that’ll happen.
Definitely need to try though. I want to do the best that I can on these projects… so that I’ll have more things to stick into my portfolio.
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Overall it’s gonna be a lot of work these next few weeks.
I definitely have not seen a lot of people in a long while because of how busy things have been.
Oh ya, and did I ever mention that I was taking a “Children’s Book” class?
I need to come up with a spread by next week. Aiya…
Well, I just wanted to update to get everything down somewhere.
I’m tired of looking at a computer… >.<
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