I’ve been following Gretchen Rubin’s challenge for 2025, which is to read for 25 minutes every day. I started the year reading nonfiction self-help books, but I quickly became bored. I needed to spice up my reading material, so I browsed my bookshelves of unread books and discovered Garfield. From there, I moved on to […]

My college class is officially over. Hurray! Honestly, I think I took on too much this semester. It’s hard to work a full-time job and do five to 10 hours of homework every week. I had to submit three pieces for my final assignment of the semester. The first piece needed to have a theme

Learning about drawing perspectives was interesting. There’s one-point perspective, where lines converge at a single vanishing point. Then, there’s two-point perspective, which involves two vanishing points. There’s also three-point perspective, but that’s significantly more advanced. My professor focused on two-point perspective. For our assignment, we had to draw several boxes above and below the horizon

Last week in class, I learned about storyboards. Previously, I had no idea that storyboarding was a critical step in the production of movies and animations. It was fascinating to read about this process and examine examples from famous films such as The Matrix and Star Wars. For our assignment, we were tasked with creating

I found a picture of a bird on the internet and attempted to draw it. I’m happy with how it turned out, considering it was my first attempt at drawing something more complicated. I focused on the shading and values because, as my professor says, “We need to start paying attention to the inside of

I’ve always wanted to learn how to draw, and after years of starting and dropping the hobby, I decided to take a drawing course for beginners at my local community college. Better late than never, right? I finally know what a blending stump is even though I haven’t really used it. I’ll periodically publish some