I was chatting with Jane our teacher about how good it is to stand up at an easel and draw for two hours.Drawing big and using your whole body. Moving rather than sitting still with only eyes darting and hands moving as has become the animation student's life. It's nice to get out of a chair and away from a screen, mouse, tablet and keyboard to make some marks directly on to a surface. It's so immediate and textured.
Sometimes I feel the technology, while being the tool, is also the barrier between us and our imaginations appearing in the pixels.A return to organic, to tangibility, is like drinking a long, cold beer after staring into a furnace all day.
Hopefully life drawing, and studio life drawing, will remain integral to the
animation course at SBIT.
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