21jan

At the moment I am watching Genevieve drawing a cute dragon.  I was originally wondering why I might want to draw cute and was kinda resolved to just do it.  But now that my brain is a little clearer I know that it is what I would like to have for some embroidery designs.  Being in the Maker Space keeps giving me ideas for what I might do with talents and skills that have followed me without much apparent purpose. Like being able to draw.

What I am also getting from her video is how she moves her hands and how she balances parts as shapes. She speaks in angles so the angle between the circle that forms the chest and the circle that forms the hips is at a forty-five degree angle.  The cute of the design is the ovals for the legs and the size of the head. The head is a rounded rectangle that is about the size of the chest and hips together.  This is the rough sketch that goes into the structure of the form.  

Thinking about what I am looking for, here, I wonder about genre versus style. It’s not about having a style per se but being able to tell the same story with the same FUNCTION GROUPS. That is the new concept.  I think looking at a face then a body then the limbs, hands and feet as function groups would be how to think of the process. Not so much as a whole.  It would be about taking my time with one thing at  a time then recognizing how to connect things and what the things are supposed to be doing that I am connecting.  

I did a good thing today.  I had the opportunity to ask for help with something i need to do in the shop.  I do not know how to communicate how to make the cut lines on the Roland in Versaworks.  We have access to the design lab guide and she is available late in the day, until nine at night.  Which means I can get help with Illustrator as a member of the shop and not as a student.  

Jim is head of the CIS lab and is also available to chat about programming and he likes Python, and the Arduino. I am also learning how he stores and manages components. Like using paper boxes made of paper sheets for the Arduinos and he sometimes puts all the needed components into the box with the stick.  

Function groups is becoming a really useful process that seems to match how I process. There is just enough focus in a group to hold my attention and then the connection gives me a moment of distraction before focusing again. I think that is also what I was experience today as I built the circuits.  The wires were one function group. The button and LED were another and the connections were the third.  Having options for how I moved through the process, where the connections happened gave me time to allow distraction while not letting me out of the system.  This is fascinating and something I can really hold on to.