I’ve been back in school for five weeks now.  I like some of my classes and hate others, but that’s pretty typical for a first year college student.  You often have to take general classes that only loosely pertain to your major.  One of my classes is Intro to Drawing.  We had an assignment to enlarge and copy a postage stamp using ink.  The professor provided us with a copy of a stamp enlarged to five times its original size.  We had to double it.  The assignment itself wasn’t very interesting to me and I don’t see how it even applies to anything I’ll be doing in the future, but it had to be done.  To make it more interesting, I decided to shoot a time lapse video of my work on it.  I positioned my camera on a tripod directly above my desk and took an image every 4 seconds.  We started the assignment in class so you don’t get to see it from the very beginning where I sketched a rough outline.  Rather, you join in shortly after I started inking the image, which is where I picked up at home.

So here’s 3.5 hours of my life I’ll never get back, condensed down into 2.5 minutes and set to a catchy tune.

Astonishingly enough, 3.5 hours is pretty short as far as assignments go.  I’ve discovered I can easily spend 6-8hrs or more on a single assignment for some of my classes.  Creativity takes time.  It worries me to think about how much time I’ll be spending on assignments as I progress into advanced classes.  Hopefully, they will at least be more fun.

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