First week back

First week back at school was brutal for me. I wasn't ready to go back but now that a week went by I'm like, "okay let's rock this." One of the main assignments for my class concept development was this apple. Jimmy Moss, aka my professor, gave us these apples and said do not touch them for the next 10 weeks. We are to render this apple everyday for the next 10 weeks. That is 70 different drawings/paintings of this exact apple. 

I suppose the main idea for this project is to begin to see this apple in a different light when all the tradition ideas are run out of. By tradition, I mean the techniques we already know so well and are use to. The purpose is to break out of these habits we're so use to by now. 

Up until this class I never really thought about how an idea is to be made up. Being a creative being, an idea was always something that came natural to me. Now I can see that to think of a great idea contains many ingredients. Great thought, many sketches, plans and schedules, lots of hard work, many more sketches, and most importantly finding an overall solution to the problem at hand. 

This blog is also something new. I've snap photographs for what seems like years now. So I've always had a photo blog, blogging about a series of photos I've been working on and so on. Being graded on a blog is a whole new game though. I feel it'll be effective for us designers by communicating and learning by the blogs. 

I actually have Jimmy as my professor for another class. Even though it's only been a week, I can see his style of teaching is everything but didactic. (do I get bonus points for using one of the words he used in class?) It is something I am very excited for. It's refreshing not to have a professor who is so set in certain way of teaching. Overall, by the end of the quarter, I hope I can begin to develop better, well thought ideas.