The Fire Within Burns Again

Hello, everybody! Today is the start of the Winter Quarter at both SCAD-Atlanta and SCAD-Savannah, and it's also the start at SCAD-Lacoste and SCAD-Hong Kong, but I don't have any friends at those two locations, so I don't really recognize them. Though it's a little strange that the quarter would begin on a Wednesday, it just seems wrong somehow. Unfortunately I am not at SCAD for the second straight quarter, and so my break will continue until the Spring Quarter when my life will return to normal. In the meantime, my thoughts are with all of my friends as they go through the stressful moments that an art school brings.

The Period of Enlightenment

When the Spring Quarter of 2010 ended I found myself pondering and questioning my major Sequential Art because I wasn't having any fun with the art that I was producing. Fun and love is what fuels the passion that artists have for their craft, but as soon as one loses that passion then it just becomes work. That's exactly what happened to me. I wasn't enjoying my sequential art anymore. I took my first animation class in the spring, and I absolutely loved it. There is nothing more enjoyable for an artist than to see their art come to life. Unfortunately I did not enjoy the last two Sequential Art classes that I've taken-Drawing for Sequential and Materials and Techniques-and there was a thought that perhaps it would be better to flip flop my major and my minor, making Animation as my primary area of study. However, I am a very stubborn individual, and I decided to give Sequential Art some more time. Now with this extended period where I am not at SCAD-Atlanta I was going to take the time to find what I had lost, and it has truly opened my eyes to what the problem really was.

I think that I may have found the passion and the fire that I had for art when I first came to SCAD-Atlanta in 2008, and it felt great. I went back to areas that I haven't touched in a long time like painting, charcoal drawing, and pastel drawing, and it was wonderful to feel the fire burning within me again. I realized that I had fallen into a trap where I was producing artwork for a grade, not for art. It is a danger for all art students. I had lost my focus, but now...it's back. When I return in the Spring of 2011 I will no longer be the same lost artist that I was when I was last seen in a classroom. I'm back to my old form.

Looney Tunes

I'm continuing my work on the panoramic drawing of the Cartoon Universe, and I've just finished the Looney Tunes penciling save for the background although I did throw in a little of it in here that I way I could show Wile E. Coyote falling off the cliff. I've drawn for over fifteen years, and I've drawn Disney and Hanna-Barbera characters before, but I've never drawn a single Looney Tunes character until this project. It seems hard to believe that I wouldn't have attempted a Bugs Bunny sketch, but I don't have any old drawing of him anywhere. It turned out pretty well although Porky Pig may be a little too short, but I don't think that I will make an effort to re-size him.
The Hanna-Barbera Universe is next, and I chose to do them last because I had no idea how I was going to set it up especially when there isn't really a clear king of that universe. Disney has Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes has Bugs Bunny, but who is the main character in Hanna-Barbera? The main character needs to be in or near the center of their composition. I decided to have Fred Flintstone as the main character in the Hanna-Barbera Universe, and now that I know that the rest of the characters are falling into place.

Final Word

I mentioned in the last entry about me being on deviantArt, but I probably should've said where just in case any of you want to see the art that's there. I can be found at http://thevampiremouse.deviantart.com/.  To my friends, whether you're in SCAD-Atlanta or SCAD-Savannah, I hope that you all had a great start to the Winter Quarter. This is Billy Wright, wishing everybody a goodnight. So long, Everybody!