i had quite the productive design class, i'd say. i spoke with my brother on Skype, downloaded Maria Full of Grace, and attempted to actually get something done for my UN posters, but my mind was a drought.

and then BAM
the idea hit me.
i now have an awesome idea for my first UN International Human Rights Day poster which i am targeting at kids.

i learned something about myself, though. once i had this idea, i shut off. i stopped it there and went for it. when Greig was walking around, he came to me and i showed him my idea and we talked it through and he interpreted it a completely different way. i realized that my idea could be worked upon and played around with in so many different ways!

what i learned from this: when i get those BAM moments when an idea decides to just dawn on me, its not the final idea thats dawning on me, it's only a start. it needs to be worked with and explored in every possible way if i want to get my message across in a crystal clear way.

i look back at the past two months and realize i have learned more than i think i have in my entire life. maybe not content-wise, but i definitely learned a ton of things that actually matter. i've surprised myself every single art class, i proved to myself over and over that i am capable, that if i put my mind to it and forget being scared and just go for it, things actually happen! i'm also getting better at explaining myself and observing things more in depth, because when we have Critique's in design, we have to talk about our project and the reason behind why we did things a certain way.. when we have art critique's, we go in groups of 3 and discuss each group members artwork for about 15 minutes, and then we go around the class, one by one, talking about another person's artwork.. what we think they did well on, what we think should be worked on.. etc.

i like it, i definitely have learned a lot.