Just wondering if the students on this board draw (with a pencil and paper). I am trying to get my students to start drawing more and it is like pulling teeth. So, do you draw, if so, why?
Whaddya talk? I choose Lighting Design specifically because I couldn't draw, sketch, or paint. You think I should have chosen Sound? Vectorworks and ESP Vision do all the rendering I need.So... no one wants to draw for "arts" sake? You guys are going to have fun your first few years of college....
Footer, I completely agree with you on the importance of drawing/sketching.
So I'm shooting myself in the foot when I don't do it, but I do have some water color supplies up in my room that I doodle with from time to time.
Do your students do move out of the Theatre Design curriculum? There are so many opportunities for interdisciplinary work. This summer, we spent half-a-day a week with the Visual Arts students in a sketching class with live models. I think that provides a great opportunity for your students. But it seems to me like there is a ton of other great interdisciplinary opportunities, build a Music 101 course into the curriculum, start at the beginning, and rush through it. Measures/beats/timings, notes/frequencies/tonality, genres/history, etc.. Get your students into the dance studios and have them observe the choreographers and dancers working, and start those types of discussions with dancers/choreographers that they will be having later. Get them into Creative Writing classes and get a feel for poetry and prose, and for literary devices, the weight of words and getting into the mind of an author, and thinking analytically, decipher the texts.
Yea, I wasn't suggesting you teach those courses, but put your students into other department's classes. Sounds like you guys already have a lot of that figured out, though I'd push for Creative Writing and Visual Art in there too.
Since this thread, I've put one of my small sketchbooks in my backpack, and have been sketching out a a handful of pages during downtime at school. I've found my graphite stick to have too much line weight for a small book, and now, for the love of God, need a pencil other than #2 (HB).
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