Sitting in PAB. Gallery is up. I slept for three hours last night. I suspect that this was a mistake; I nearly fell over in the shower, dreaming of American relocation camps and genocide.
Scenography is complete. The cutting rectangles out of tracing paper was much less hellish this time around. The real problem came from the mobile quarter-turn staircase: bloody impossible to sketch in perspective. I finally gave up and just drew in two curves and some lines. Costuming . . . not so much. I'm likely to get an incomplete and have to do them over the summer, 'cos that's what I asked for, but if I'm lucky I'll just get the D- and not have to bother.
The curious bit came at about two in the morning. I'd finished the study model and been doing thumbnail sketches for the last two hours, and gotten completely sick of perspective and lighting. So I stopped, figured I'd write up the one-page blurb about my design choices and then crash, because motivation was utterly lacking.
And in the simple process of writing, of doing something creative that I can do, I recovered enough energy and motivation to not only finish the thumbnails, but completely redo one of the hideous awful costuming watercolors. Amazing how something as easy as doing things well can rejuvenate me.
For those just joining me: I swear I make more sense when I don't have huge visually-based projects hanging over my head.
Scenography is complete. The cutting rectangles out of tracing paper was much less hellish this time around. The real problem came from the mobile quarter-turn staircase: bloody impossible to sketch in perspective. I finally gave up and just drew in two curves and some lines. Costuming . . . not so much. I'm likely to get an incomplete and have to do them over the summer, 'cos that's what I asked for, but if I'm lucky I'll just get the D- and not have to bother.
The curious bit came at about two in the morning. I'd finished the study model and been doing thumbnail sketches for the last two hours, and gotten completely sick of perspective and lighting. So I stopped, figured I'd write up the one-page blurb about my design choices and then crash, because motivation was utterly lacking.
And in the simple process of writing, of doing something creative that I can do, I recovered enough energy and motivation to not only finish the thumbnails, but completely redo one of the hideous awful costuming watercolors. Amazing how something as easy as doing things well can rejuvenate me.
For those just joining me: I swear I make more sense when I don't have huge visually-based projects hanging over my head.