So, hand on heart, I’ve been dreading this follow-up class ever since we had the first one! I’m not great at letting myself go and exploring space with my body as I’m very shy. And I don’t know whether it was worse or better this time considering I knew my classmates a little better? But anyway, it was actually quite fun and I definitely enjoyed it more than the last session, as it was all day so we had more time and it was more relaxed.
From the last session we were asked to study an animal and how it moves and bring that to our next session. I chose a penguin beacuse I just think they’re really neat!!
It turned out it was a pretty tricky choice, as when we were tasked with moving around the room as our animal counterparts, literally the only thing I could do was waddle around!! I mean, technically I guess I could’ve tried tobogganing, but I’d seen the state of my socks after ten minutes exposed to that floor, I wasn’t going to be putting my face anywhere near it!!
But it was okay because we ended up having to create a kind of hybrid creature of our chosen animal and human, and move in a way we thought this imaginary creature would. Therefore I ended up just awkwardly shuffling around like I do on the daily anyway!
Unsurprisingly, my favourite part of the session was when we sat down to draw! We had to create a visual of what out hybrid creature might look like. Obviously with penguins its very easy to go down the tuxedo path, but I didn’t think that reflected penguins very well, because as much as I love them, they’re really the epitome of clumsiness, but it’s not their fault, I’d be slip sliding everywhere too if I lived on ice 24/7.
Anyway, this resulted in me turning a gentoo penguin into a soft round lovable human, with their socks not on properly so they’re always falling and sliding on their laminate floors! There were also a couple of terrifying hybrids in between them.
It was cool to see my classmate’s work too! One that particularly stood out was someone turned an ostrich into a snooty ballerina which I thought was perfect!