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Acting workshop day 2.

Today we learned that you can use your imagination to make your physical self respond (ex. imagining a happy scenario would make you smile while imagining a scary scenario would possibly make you tremble). I got really depressed when we imagined a sad scenario, and it was hard to pull myself out of it until much later. I admit, it was uncomfortable to be so sad in front of everyone, but others I could see reacted in similar ways, so I wonder if they felt that way also.


Interesting point said during the workshop: -If you try to hold back what you're feeling it'll stick with you, but if you just feel how you are feeling, then it'll be done and gotten over with.

-Would you call acting manipulating your emotions...?


an odd thing: -I decided to check out a super hero cartoon (Justice League), and now I'm seeing superhero references everywhere. For example, in two days, superheroes popped up three times! (when I was buying art supplies for the painting workshop, there were mannequins painted to look like spiderman, superman etc. on the shelf behind the counter...the day after that, Sarah was talking about an idea for the bully commercial about a student superhero (?) like superman...the period after that, in band, a superman reference was made...)

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Painting workshop Day 2!
I was nervous when the period started, since I didn't get supplies...but I'm glad that Luke let us borrow some of his. Right after school I went to the art store and got them, so now I'm ready for the next one...!

I admit, I wanted to get painting right away... so I was a little fidgety during the demonstration. But once we got around to painting, it was difficult. First I was going to slow, then I wasn't doing the drawing...it was a little frustrating having to keep on washing off the painting... I wanted to go through the process and get something finished, then see what went wrong and erase and try again. But stepping back and looking at it, I suppose it's important to do be able to do each step right.

This workshop is quieter than the last one, but at the moment, quiet is necessary since we're all concentrating on the shapes and how to start on the painting.

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First day of the acting workshop. We did a lot of feeling exercises...and it got very loud...but it was nice. I learned that it's better to act as someone who would feel as you are feeling at the current moment.

The only thing is, I don't know if I was feeling anything. I felt sorta...empty-ish inside I guess you could call it.

edit: It was interesting to see everyone else's reactions during the workshop also. I think some people got more emotional since they were more open to letting their feelings show....?
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http://whatthecrap.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/dude.jpg <-ref. for 1st day shape drawin' yeah

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First day of new workshops! I forgot to check my e-mail so I nearly forgot!

We're doing painting. But with emphasis on shapes than trying to make it..."picture perfect". Literally.
The examples Luke showed in class reminded me a little of Picasso. With shapes being dominant over realism. I wonder if Picasso's paintings looked similar to those paintings when he was changing styles...

The drawings we did today turned out all right. I think I liked my first one (the one we traced). It was fun doing the second ones though, if you forgot about makin it look good and just "cut stuff."

Doing a shape-ish drawing for a day doesn't sound too hard, but then again I'm behind on my daily practice by a day or two... I hope I'll be able to keep up wirh everything...

Also, I forget what type of brushes we're supposed to get...ehehrh

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I saw a commercial in which there was a brush that drew a car and was reminded of the workshop on Friday (which also reminded me that I didn't blog about it yet!) I don't have much time to write, so I'll add on more as I think about it, tomorrow.

The workshop was very unexpected, but I enjoyed it. I kind-of get the feeling that in art, this year we're working on simplifying everything before working on the details. Doing the basics.

Brush painting was harder than I thought! The brush picked up a surprisingly large amount of ink. I was reminded a little of how the ink pens (not ballpoints) hold ink! There was also the issue of water. You had to balance the amount of ink, and amount of water, in order to get the kind of stroke you wanted to.
I hope to do more in the future.
Misc: I had a book about brush painting at home. I also have tried to create a brush effect through digital art, but it's very hard. (I tried doing it again during the weekend, and ended up doing something else.)

--- In other news, I'm re-watching Iron Man for the...third or fourth time. Thanks to STAC, I'm noticing more about how the music is used, and thinking about the special effects, and how they filmed things. I also forgot that Jeff Bridges was Obidah. He looks really different than his role as Cogburn...amazing what actors can do!

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Whoops! Forgot to blog for last week, so I'll write a little about what I was thinking...
All of the work we did with our voices last week made me pay attention to how both I sounded and how other people sounded. I've always liked listening to voices, but now I notice how that the people who's voices I like bring out their consonants...I think I'm starting to do that also.
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Today in STAC art, I was surprised that we were doing characterchures. I was happy since I could work on line drawings even more...
I also was reminded that there are many ways to draw people. I usually start out with the face shape, then work in the details, but I noticed that Ganes started with people's nose, and I remember, from a conversation with Sarah, that she draws people's eyes first....!

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Last week's movie was....interesting. I don't really know how to talk about it (I think even our discussion of the movie in class was shorter than usual!) I was interested the whole time, but I also wasn't interested. Part of the movie brought your attention to it, like the plot, but the dreary scenery sort-of let your other half of your mind wander around....

In other news, STAC art last week really brightened me up. I had just come from a math assessment and I was feeling horrible since I didn't get to finish, but then we got to see one of my favorite movies that I had watched when I was little. I had forgotten about some of the songs, like the one with the characters from greek mythology and the one with all of the animals doing ballet.
While watching it again, I was reminded how well-done the animation sequence was... I found myself wondering how they got it that smooth since I tried doing some things like that, and it turned out to be pretty rough...