Anyway, I'm in a screen-printing class. It started on Tuesday and we had to come in with a finished design for a one-color print on Thursday. I had no ideas, except that I wanted to draw Steve doing something. I tried thinking for hours after class about what Steve should be doing, had nothing in mind, then slept. Then on Wednesday, I came up with Steve dangling with some opossums, and by the end of the night, I sketched and Photoshopped this composition, with no tree design in mind:
Then today I skipped my Chinese Brush Painting class (this is the only class I will miss: I was tired and didn't want to paint lotuses) and worked from 11-4:30 in Illustrator and managed to make this:
I'm pretty happy with it. My teacher warned me about fine lines, and I tried to make the important ones thick enough. So when I made the screen today, I was surprised when most of the details came through. Even the opossums' fur made it. And it made me happy when a girl in my class asked if she could bring a shirt to class for me to print my design on. =3
Chinese Brush Painting class is going well, and Ning Yeh (my teacher) is awesome. I suck at it for now, but I've gotten much better. Will scan some/photograph it when I have time!
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