Go Figure

After the ASIFA volunteer meeting yesterday I had a Laguna College of Art & Design animation faculty meeting in of all places Glendale right down the street from the shopping mart that use to be the Disney Studio. They have up a plaque.

Lack of enough figure drawing came up as it always does. A student should be doing figure drawing every semester and no school can run that many figure drawing classes. LCAD has open figure drawing classes including a Saturday morning class but students that really need it tend to just do the assigned classes.

Chuck Jones did figure drawing classes his whole life. I have a friend who was teaching a life drawing class in the mid 80s that Chuck showed up for. Freaked him out.

I saw 2 of Chuck`s drawing from a 1955 Don Graham master`s class at Chuck’s last public appearance and gallery show. The drawings impressed me very much because one was a success and one was a failure. (Chuck picked the show so he did that on purpose – got to respect the man)

Every school I have ever taught at has had the same problem. They just can`t put enough life drawing classes in the curriculum to force students to have the foundation that they really need.

So it comes down to the student to make the commitment. LCAD has the classes there if they want them. That is about as good as you can do. We can only lead students so far. That is real world. The students are adults now. Everybody has to learn to walk on their own. And make their own mistakes.