Learning Illustration

In addition to learning to be logical (which I've found I'm actually extremely good at - I currently have earned 105.4% of the possible points in the class), I'm also learning illustration this semester.

From my earliest memory, I've always been a drawer (that's "draw-er," not like the sock drawer). Until three or four years ago, I used to draw every day - either in my electives in college (mostly art and design) or as part of my journal. Something happened those three or four years ago, and I stopped, and I'm not quite sure why.

So here I am, rusty with the pencils and struggling in my "Imaging and Illustration" class; having difficulty adjusting to the process of thumbnailing and roughing and sketching; so used to turning on the computer, whipping out the graphic stylus, and firing up Illustrator, only to be disappointed that the output on the screen doesn't match the vision in my head. The professor gave me some exercises to practice technique and to learn to see shapes and planes better and how they stack and build in the software to produce results. And the results are, I think, fantastic.



I'm going to try to do some drawing every day again. I have a whole notebook of jotted down scraps of conversations, ideas, and miscellaneous odd ends just waiting to be illustrated.