First Week

I'm posting this a week late :X

First week went pretty well, even though I got a lot of homework. Somehow it was still all manageable. By the way, my classes are 2D, 3D (aka spatial dynamics), Drawing, English, and Art History. They all have fancy long names to go on the transcript, but no one uses these official titles. My drawing homework was kind of ridiculous. Two drawings of six hours each. Not so bad, except that the drawings are of a 10 ft tall pile of random furniture and at first you only draw the vertical lines, extending them to the ends of the page (and then the horizontals, etc). Very tedious.



Ridiculous pile of furniture


For 2D I made a gouache grayscale and ended up cutting out about 30 or 40 strips.




Strips all lined up.
On Saturday, we went to the RISD "farm," which is really not a farm at all but a beautiful beach! :)


Great view!

Awesome bottle I found on the beach. I put it back to save the sea-creatures on it...

One night we painted our doorframes! Mine is a sort of orange monster.


Remind you of the Kraft mac-n-cheese dino at all?

More on the next week when I can charge up my camera!

Arrival

Someday, I learn draw good. This blog is about my time at RISD -- sharing photos and anecdotes for my friends and family back home.

I arrived on the RISD campus late Saturday morning and moved my things in. I was lucky enough to get a single...It's a much better room than expected. Pretty spacious and all.




Colbert guards my bed (FOTC on wall not shown)
















My lovely desk. I've already spent a lot of time working here.
















There are actually only two of these shelves on my floor.

















My walls are concrete, so I had some issues hanging my bulletin board. Luckily, I had some climbing gear and foam shelf liner available to jury-rig a hanging apparatus.
















All in all, my experience at RISD so far has been overwhelmingly positive (despite the copious amounts of homework in the first few days).