Let's start with last Tuesday....easily one of the worst days I've ever had. Basically, Tuesday was the day I was going to finally be added to Gerry's drawing class and my evening Life Drawing class, it was supposed to be like the best day ever or something. However, due to bus complications, I was two minutes late to Gerry's class....and guess what, the one day I'm late, HE FREAKING MAKES THE RULE "YOU MUST BE HERE EXACTLY ON TIME TO ADD." What. Let me first remind you this is the same teacher who didn't even show up the first day of school....actually I should be more sensitive, because in all seriousness, he was sick with the flu, but still. TWO MINUTES. I was mostly pissed at myself to be honest, I felt like I could have left earlier. Long story short, no luck there.
That same evening, I was late to Life Drawing as well...same bus issue, it broke down. Anyway, I get there and it turns out like no one dropped. Which even the teacher thought was unusual. So my luck, once again, flew out the window. Also found out that day I was rejected from Motivarti...I knew I was going to, but it didn't make my day any better.
Wednesday was the same deal with the other drawing class I was crashing. No luck there (seemingly).
HOWEVER, Thursday is where things got interesting.
On Thursday, I went to Gerry's class one last time just in case, no luck, and I had to leave the classroom, at this point I figured I was shit outta luck, and things couldn't get worse, so I figured I'd call the animation guild just for the lulz. Turns out they had an extra spot in their figure drawing class for that night. Needless to say I dragged my ass to Burbank that night and signed up with the quickness, and I LOVED the class too. Karl Gnass is my instructor. He's a genius, plus he's super nice. He worked on some of my favorite childhood cartoons too, so it's kinda awesome being taught by him.
This weekend was nothing too special. I drew a lot and hung out with James for a bit, but mostly drew a lot. Then yesterday happened, and things only got better.
So yesterday was Monday, my Drawing I class with Prof. Melody, whom I thought was going to tell me to leave because there was no space for me yada yada, however, turns out, she had been looking for my email to tell me she planned on adding me! Then BOOM, she whipped out an add slip and handed it to me. I was sooooooooooooo freaking happy. Like.....you don't understand. I finally got a class!
BUT WAIT, IT GETS BETTER!
Today was my day off, so I was going to use the time to catch up on all of my homework for Prof. Melody's class. She assigns a bunch, and since I was a new add, I was wayyyy behind. I planned on showing up to the Life Drawing class one more time just because. I figured it couldn't hurt. So I did. Showed up a bit before class started and drew for a bit, I saw the people slowly make their way into the classroom, and I could tell by the sheer numbers no one had dropped. I was honestly about to get up and leave, but I kinda just wanted to hide in the corner and draw the model anyway, so I did.
As I was drawing, the teacher walked by and spotted me, mostly surprised by the fact that I still was showing up. She sighed and kinda gave me that look I'm so used to by now by instructors. The "I want to help you but I can't look." And I don't mind, because it's not like the teachers really have that measure of control, so I wasn't upset or anything. But, instead of asking me kindly to leave, she told me she was going to add me. Much to my surprise. And her tone was more like "Screw the administration, I will allow you to take this course despite the rules." And I have to say, that easily just made my week. Of course I have to see if my request will process tomorrow morning, but I'll deal with that later.
And what's more?? I was talking to students in the class about additional Life Drawing classes at CSUN, the college near me, and some of them saw the life drawings I did in class and they liked them! Which left me confused, because they weren't just saying it to be polite, people even said they were going to try my "technique" and they were "jealous of my line work." I shit you not they said that lol. And I'm just sitting here like......I have no idea what I'm doing hahaha.
Anyways, so yeah, in one week, everything just kinda went full circle. I really need to sleep now, so I'll post an update like tomorrow or something with some new artwork.
Laterz
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