Spring Semester Beginning

This was the first assignment from Ani112a (intro to illustration) class with Cameron Chun. This class will generally be focusing on understanding light to create believable and interesting illustrations. I'm super excited about this class- we're going to create human figure sculptures and do the pen/ink illustration project!!! Right now, we're working on academic drawing and rendering by copying cast drawings. It's a bit tedious, especially using graphite but then I think about the ambitious art students in the 18th century French academy having to copy these drawings in the same fashion 200+ times before finally getting approved to paint... and I stop complaining.