Hi there. I've been meaning to post a journal about this, but I keep being too busy or tired. This semester I have been taking a painting class. It's an art department class, but it is not as serious as the drawing class I took last semester. Apparently people like International Affairs majors have to take some intro level art class to fulfill requirement, so the class is full of people who are uninterested in art and/or have never drawn before. It's a little disheartening to be doing something I love and work so hard at alongside people who don't care. Also, the peer critique session gets really deviantArt, if you know what I mean. *cough* At least no one has said "kawaii," though I think the word "cute" has been uttered.

It has been nice to be painting though. The first was the still life all in brown that I recently posted. My second painting is done, and I will be posting it soon. This evening I went shopping for a prop for my next painting, which I am quite excited about. While the class may not be as serious as I would like, it is very relaxing, and most of it gets done during class time, meaning it's not really adding too much to my homework burden (except, of course, when I pick a masochistic still life for myself and have to spend the night before finishing it up until ridiculous o'clock in the morning).

My other classes have been pretty hard on me, especially as of late. I'm also taking the continuation of the computer animation class I took last semester, but I have barely been able to work on it at all. This semester we get the opportunity to do motion capture, which is awesome, although the equipment is not that great. To compensate for the noisy data I will inevitably be getting back (probably with my limbs spontaneously flying off into space), I planned my animation to be simpler in concept than my last semester. However, I still would like to try to make it as pretty as possible, and focus on doing a better job on rigging and skinning my character. However, I have been able to devote so little time to it, right now my poor character only has his legs modeled. Hopefully I will be able to work on it more soon.