Todays lesson was an awesome one, Stephen taught us all day. In the beginning we started out with a quiz, which already stressed me out, since I don’t really enjoy. Stephen, calmed me down explaining that is was just a quiz, so we would learn about yourself. After the quiz, Stephen explained that, we are taught to see the world logically, using Common Sense. For this course we need to think, more creative, be more playful and think outside of the box.
Stephen then gave us an example of how we have used logic in our lives, which it will be our doom if the computers A.I found out, it will be game over, the examples was basically:
If A equals B and B equals C, then A equals to C.
A= Apple
B= Food
C= Delicious
As Stephen wrote and explained:
For today we did something very interesting, Stephen showed us an old laptop that it was the same age as me (22). He then opened the oldest version of photoshop that I have ever seen, which is interesting to see something like that. It was something really cool.
After opening photoshop, Stephen gave us some paper and we had this exercise to complete.
We started out by receiving a blank sheet of paper, and when Stephen opened photoshop, it had the same layout as our pages.
But the photoshop layout was numbered. The only thing we need to do was just to copy draw the same images that appeared in the square.
The idea is just to turn your brain off and just draw, without think what it could be, without talking to each other and just being quiet and draw what is shown to you.
From here out is was so quiet and so nice. We all concentrated to draw, even I who couldn’t draw very good, felt at ease with this exercise, my brain was off. Having this as for a moment was very relaxing, after a moment, people started to realise what it could be. I wanted to ignore it since the exercise was not to figure out.
Even upside down I didn’t realised what it was, but then just turning it upside up, I saw it was Albert Einstein. I was shocked, I never could draw a face before, but there he was and I showed some of my friends and the automatically know it was. I can’t say anymore that I can’t draw anymore, Stephen proved me wrong, this lecture taught me some much about art, how to see the world creatively and not so much logically. It’s all about learning knowing how your brain works and how you can change.
I’m looking forward to work with this technique and since Stephen also told us something so shocking, that he couldn’t draw. As a professional animator, I assumed that you had to draw at lest very good. But then explained that he learned how to draw using a book as a guide.
