Daily Head Studies

A couple of sketch book pages of heads and skulls. I've been looking at oldie but goodie Burne Hogarth's Drawing the Human Head. I've never really cared for BH's work aesthetically, but the guy could draw til the cows came home and lays out some extremely good stuff about simplified forms and conceptualizing the head from a variety of angles. I'm finding that my biggest problem with drawing seems to be not having a solid enough conception of the basic forms in space. . . and sad things like proportion. I's trying to git in shape.

3D nothingness

hope
pander
repress
should
"the RIGHT way"
bleh
ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting by Scott Spencer is a very good book on ZBrush.
I learn stuff from it
pat on head
now forget it all

Where did he go?

I'm back after a bout with not being fully sick, just being really tired, run down and kind of sick. For the record, on Saturday, Sam and I started working on a video game, inspired by Scott Raedeke who teaches cool Flash stuff at South Medford. Julie got the stomach flu. Sam and Henry and I watched some Rugby and Lacrosse outside--a beautiful day. On Sunday, I bonked heads with Max playing basketball (saw a flash of light! all was revealed!) and read papers for my USEM class. Sam and I also created custom players for "The Men of Candy," our Pro Evolution Soccer Team (one unexpected favorite is the tall, skinny red-headed guy, whose face we lifted from a Francisco Goya self-portrait). Monday I taught all freaking day. Ugnaught. Tuesday, same thing. It's dead week, so I'm trying to help "the kids" be all that they can be. I'm a servant of the people. Har har.

Cranky Friday

Sat through some tedious dept. biz this morning and started thinking about my teaching philosophy. "Don't assume that what you're talking about is interesting to anybody," was as far as I got. "Read this Thucydides, and experience an uncanny wonder at the violence and pointlessness of human endeavor, bee-ach." Personally, I loves me some liberal arts n' shizz, but I've no interest in inflicting it on the unwilling.

Blast from the past. I'm sending out a copy of Legends From Camp to the Disorient Film Festival in Eugene, OR today. Flashing back to 2004. The sun was shining everywhere back then, wasn't it?

On another note, I really want to get my #@%$ing website up so I can get on with my @#$^$ing worthless life. !@#$% all y'all! @#$%$^&$*$%@!