The Blogging Begins

Well, this being my first post, I've actually got two weeks worth of things to talk about, so it's probably going to be long; that is, as long as I can actually remember everything that happened in week one. Dinosaurs; yes, I distinctly remember the dinosaurs, which was incredibly interesting to watch, especially considering that I can't draw dinosaurs very well.

Hmmm..... what else happened in week one. I suppose this says more about how shocking my memory skills are than anything else.

Oh yes; inn research. But before I get to that, I would like to say how much I loved the Grimm's Fairy Tale that was picked out for us. I read the entire thing, getting very excited by the prospect of designing a lot of the things in it (cat's eyes! He has cat's eyes!) only to become very disappointed by the fact that we were only going to be designing the inn. Oh well. I suppose it's actually better to get used to designing the boring stuff. So yes.

Inn research. We discovered a few little gems on the internet, except that as try as hard as I might, I can't find the same sites as we did in class. As I think someone mentioned in our second class however, most of what we found had a lot of external shots, but not much interior.

I tried to draw some thumbnails in class, but I was completely lacking in inspiration, so they were pretty terrible.

For more research I watched 'The Brother's Grimm', and then, a few days later (ie; the night before our next class -_-;) sat down and found inspiration in of all things, the not quite as appropriate as aforementioned sources, 'The Village', and came up with rather nice result which I shall have to post the next time I'm on a computer with a scanner.

The second class was extremely useful; lot's of information about colour-coding etc. that I will have to remember. The instructional video this time around was good, but after a while it got a little tiring. Plus I really would have liked to know more about some of the tools he was using instead of just watching him do it. For example, I think he might have been using the burn tool as one stage but I couldn't be sure.

As far as the excercise for last week goes, I have it downloaded and waiting for me to do it at home, so I'll post again once I've got more time. Class it about to start.

-Ciao, Jewels