Illustration Studio: AMAZING.
Oren Sherman is our professor, and I really do believe that he must be one of the best professors here ever. Right from the bat he stated that he doesn't think that the word "commercial" is ugly. Commerce is vital to art, which seems like a paradox but it really isn't. Fine Arts people who say that Illustration is a commercial art are stupid, because as long as there is a consumer, then you ARE a commercial artist. The difference between Fine Arts and Illustration is that in Illustration, you learn to EXPLAIN and COMMUNICATE your own ideas through someone else's concept.

More things that were so amazing:
- Failure is great, as long as you put in at least 12 hours into it.
- Don't perform; work hard and EARN.
- We will grow up to COMMUNICATE with our peers.
- FUN, FAME, and FORTUNE: two out of three of these means a SUCCESS.
- Religious paintings are fine art, but they are also the first ever Illustrations.
- Beauty and Violence are the universal drama of humanity.
- The best illustrations/fine art gets you IN to the story, explains it, and then gets you OUT.
- 나 자신에게 재미있고 인상적이어야 남 한테도 재미있고 인상적이다. If it's not fun for you to do it, then it won't be fun to your audience. In this sense, 에술가들이야말로 정말 가장 이기적인 사람들이다. (나 일러스트 정말 잘 고른것같지않아요? ㅋ)

He also warned us: "DO NOT LOOK AT MY ART. My own personal style and preference has nothing to do with this class, so don't try to imitate it to get good grades. I'm here to teach about how I got here, not what I do, and I do not want to influence your OWN career negatively. I'm here to influence you about how you can also become successful in your own way and have your OWN careers while having fun in life, because life is too short to be boring, and I am sure this is what we BOTH want."

My HW is to take Frankenstein, read it, and connect to it from personal experience. Think deep about the story and how it relates to your own person. We are not going to "illustrate" this book so NO DRAWINGS of actual Frankenstein. We will have our own interpretation.



English Class: BAD.
If Illustration Studio was super amazing, then English class was the exact opposite. Our professor is in fact NOT a professor, but an INSTRUCTOR from the University of RI. Apparently there were so many people who had to take this class that they hired her or something. Plus, she is exactly like Ms. Johnson. No, I will not stand for this. I am paying a FORTUNE to be educated here, so I refuse to be instructed by someone who isn't even tenured. I am going to the Registrar, my Liberal Arts Department, AND my Illustration Advisor to discuss this and switch to a different English class that has an ACTUAL professor before it's too late. I am not going to sit around and let bad things happen. I love this school too much to actually come here and let things go bad. I am taking ACTION.