Illustration Workshop - I feel like I have been kicked

[wayfaringwordhack]

 Not in a bad way.  I am just dead tired.  This workshop is intense.  In one week, we are retelling a familiar story, putting our text into a twelve-spread storyboard (thumbnails should be sketchy), picking one of the spreads to finish in our style of choice (Maya is letting people do digital if they want, but she would prefer that we work in trad media, perhaps acrylic being the primary one), and designing a cover.

There is fun twist to all of this, but the twist also renders it more complicated.

At the beginning of the day, we all wrote down a story title that should be familiar to everyone.  We also wrote down a random place (a country), and a time period.  Then we put our papers into little bowls and everyone had to draw a paper for each category.

My story is Jack and the Beanstalk set in Turkey in the 1700s.

I normally work like a turtle and hem and haw over the slightest things.  My phone was bugging for some reason, making my research really difficult, and I wasted too much time trying to make my writing pretty and concise (note to self: this is an illustration course, not a writing course!).  I felt like I wasted a lot of time.  Time I have to catch on somehow, but I don't think I can right now.

Tonight, I am supposed to finish my storyboard, work on finalizing my character design, and do some more research, but...bed is calling, and I must go...

THUNK

Comments

[queenoftheskies]

Wow, that sounds like a HUGE experience. I hope it's something that will pave the way for you to get your work out there.

[asakiyume]

I bet the visual opportunities for Jack and the Beanstalk in 1700s Turkey are great. When you say research, do you mean like into what people were wearing at the time and what gardens and things looked like?

Tonight, I am supposed to finish my storyboard, work on finalizing my character design, and do some more research, but...bed is calling, and I must go... --And what's lovely about doing a workshop, as opposed to being in mandatory K-12 education or at a job, is that **you** are in charge of how much you do. **You** get to decide how much is possible and reasonable for you to do. The teacher probably lays out more stuff than is possible to do to brilliant completion to ensure that there's plenty to do (because she'd have dissatisfied customers if everyone was able to finish their assignment in 15 minutes and was then like, "Now what"), but like, if you want to really focus on character design and do less on the storyboard, or vice versa, that's okay! It's all learning, and she'll be able to comment on what you do do, and offer suggestions.

[drippedonpaper]

Sounds really amazing. Do you ever post photos of your work? :)

[wayfaringwordhack]

You'll find some in the entry after this one, I think. :)

And when I get back from hols, I will finish the cover part of the workshop assignment and post photos.