You got doored

Oh, I'm bad. Very, very bad. Trying to be good, but jiminy...

Anyway, how have I progressed this quarter? Hmm...I like to start with the bad and end with the good, so I'm a dismal failure at doing the things I don't particularly feel like doing. 3D modeling still gets my goat. I'm just not into it. It gives me a headache. I feel completely incapable of making an Alias model look anything like my sketches. I have promised myself, time and time again, that I would take some time and really put effort into learning it well. Let's face it - I hate it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. But...maybe I could learn Rhino? I've heard good things...Solid Works, too, but I feel like that stuff is kind of primitive. Dunno...something I need to work on. Focus on, even...

Technology, too. Bleh. I don't know anything about it. I'm not particularly interested, either.

But! About that sketching...it's fun now. Really, really fun. I'm actually sitting here, sketching tea kettles, watching Weeds, and having a grand ol' time. Not literally sketching right now, but...will be. Soon. And was.

I'm not sure if I actually got any better at it, but I have gained a new perspective. Designers sketch to explore forms. I can draw something really stupid looking, and now I can look at it and say "Ok, that sketch makes me a little nauseas. Time to move on." Sketching ugly stuff is almost as helpful as sketching pretty stuff. At the very least it will help me decide what I definitely don't want to do.

And...I'm going to Tool this winter. Yay! And I think yoga is becoming a fairly integral part of being a balanced designer. Just a side note.

So, I think I'm more or less fine with how things are going. We'll just have to see.