First day of class (RISD)

I wouldn't say I had an easy time with class today, but I feel like I understood the principles being considered. Naturally my drawing will have to improve, and who knows, with all the attention we're supposed to be paying to the effort of drawing, they might just!

I don't know how I'm going to deal with their expectations of every spare moment in the studio at school. I can understand the difficulty of pushing yourself while at home, but I have to develop that ability if I want to succeed. Which means working at it every day.

Review of the day:

Rope knot understanding

Drawing of the rope knots

Informal critique of the drawings and diagrams

Progression to the paper representations

Paper representations

• Models need to become progressively more detailed with the goal of acheiving an understanding of the effects different manipulations (principly folding) will have on the shape of the model. The final goal is to have models that are precise with a well-understood process as to how to create them
• Drawings of the models also work from more abstract to very precise and should be done 1:1 or larger. They should illustrate the principles learned about the folds and may help inform the creation of further models
• Models should be a progression towards an understanding of the general mechanisms, and then experimentations on the effects of changing variables (folding conditions)

Arriving at the train station soon, so thats about it for today.

Onwards!