Smacked arse!

Yesterday we were all at the University for a crit of our work for the last time at 1:200 unaware that it was a marked crit.  The drawings on the wall didn't look as good as they once did and I agree with the tutors that some of us have gone backwards somewhat.

These thongs are getting a bit tight!

In our defence it is because we are trying to find the best way of rendering our work to make it leap off the wall that for most of last week some of us wasted a huge amount of time trying out Photoshop.  When you keep getting told your work looks crap and uninteresting is it any wonder we still don't know which technique is best?  There are only so many times you can be knocked down before you wonder if it's worth getting up again!  "You draw some trees and scan them into Photoshop" seems to be a mantra going through this uni from previous years, so you try it and they never look as good as when they are in your sketch book!  So for this reason I shall be digging out my children's colouring pencils and using those (that's if I packed them before I came out here to Mars).