Present Joys

legodickmuseum:

colleenclarkart:

Some drawings from the same pose in figure drawing class! I finished the full pose and a portrait so in the last 20 minutes of class I drew him as a vampire haha

This does beg the question: Why is Bob naked when he reads?

And I LOVE vampire Bob. Colleen is my art rival for a reason. 

BOB BOB BOB BOB BOB. CCAD’s greatest model.

• Had thanksgiving lunch with a giant group of friends at the CCAD Family Thanksgiving feast. My favorite lunch of the whole year.
• Worked all alone during my break on monday afternoon. Had a last-minute burst of inspiration for my ad final (due tuesday morning). Redid a large chunk of it!
• Had a very fun time in my tuesday ad class. Turned in my finals, gave a little presentation, and relaxed.
• Had an equally-nice time turning in homework for my copywriting class. It was very laid-back.
• Went to another job interview, this time on the 31st floor of a downtown high-rise.
• Did a ton of wonderful things (sewing, knitting, working, playing accordion) over Thanksgiving break. And not a lot of homework.

Something else that I did this week: introduced two of my favorite teachers to one another. Mr. Burleigh unexpectedly came into my jewelry class on thursday to deliver something to me and got to meet my super-cool jewelry teacher, Chris Hill. This blurry photograph is proof of these two worlds colliding. (It is also proof of how much Amanda and I enjoyed this red-letter experience.)

• Discussed Incognegro in my comic book class. I thought it was atrocious and I told my teacher so. Understandably, this made for a slightly uncomfortable class period.
• Got out of marketing after only 45 minutes. Ready to be done with that class for good.
• Started working on a new project for my ad class while simultaneously continuing on the old one, which I’m doing on WD-40 and which I am pretty bored of.
• Turned in some of my worst copywriting homework ever: ads employing verbal metaphor. Mr. Felton graded it generously and wrote “you’ll live to fight another day”.
• Made a bunch of jump rings in jewelry. I’m making good progress on a necklace project.
• Finished making a handful of extra-special bow ties to sell at a pop-up store later this semester. At a meeting on wednesday night, Mr. Mohr bought one of my ties right then and there. Pretty great!
• Worked off-and-on all week on this darn WD-40 project. Finals are due next tuesday.
• Had a really really fun time in copywriting on thursday making up “testimonial” ads in class.
• Left jewelry really early to go on a road trip to Detroit to see the Magnetic Fields. (More on that later.)
• Followed up on my Internship Fair leads and had an interview on friday. KILLED IT.

• Drove all the way to school monday morning and realized I’d left my package design final at home. So I turned around and went to get it at 7:50am. Rush hour torment.
• Turned in my package design final and had a crit. It went better than I was expecting, considering the embarrassingly poor craftsmanship on my final.
• Butted heads with my “literary studies of comics” teacher. The ideological antagonism is becoming less and less bearable.
• Stayed late after marketing on monday night to finish a video group project. If all goes well, I shouldn’t have to turn in anything else for the class.
• Drove to school on wednesday night for a 9:30pm meeting. It was kinda fun to see all my friends late at night.
• Turned in ad finals (our second project of the semester). Looked at everyone’s finals and wrote comments on papers. The comments were largely worthless.
• Got a ton of work done in jewelry. I bezel-set three pieces of jade. Also I helped Amanda with her bezel-setting. I’m getting pretty good at soldering.
• Learned how to use the hydraulic die forming machine.
• Printed out a bunch of résumés and examples of my work and talked to companies at the Internship Fair on friday. Very thankful to be done with that.