I haven't had much time for more than homework...art school has TONS of it!
A wonderful thing happened to me...I was introduced to working with clay...now I am a sculpture major.
I tried to explain to the Director of Sculpture how it felt when I started working with clay...a sculptor ( I would hope so!) himself he told me about how he first tried it and thought "Ah yes! I'm home!"
That was exactly how I felt...I have found what I want to do!
My husband, bless his heart couldn't be more supportive...and this is a big deal. Doing it online is going to be tough, and it is going to mean a lot of money spent in the way of materials and supplies. He was astounded when I said I was most interested in life sized work...that might be tricky, and all life sized work will probably have to be limited to clay...but I also want to know all about bronze, and jewelry, and whatever else.
The director is a Prince, and willing to work with me as far as tailoring the degree to my goals of being a figurative sculptor...believe it or not that means LOTS of drawing classes. My husband was also a bit surprised by that. I cannot explain why the drawing classes are important other than to say they help with learning to see, and with learning proportion, and other visual basics. Figure drawing is THE way to understand how the body is set up...Doctors should be made to take up to advanced figure drawing as well as ecorche ( modeling the human body as if it has no skin )...making the things gives one an intimate understanding of how it is..made. Now an artist does not have to fully understand how all the parts work, or what they are called...just visually represent them....but it doesn't hurt, and it sure would be good for a future Doctor to build a body on paper and in clay.