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Hello! This is not part of my usual bi-weekly (although they really haven't been that frequent for the last month I guess) but is more of a personal update.
I've Been on Vacation! For a week... I really needed a break from work and drawing in general so I went to stay for a few days at my friend syncUP, followed by a couple of days at my Dad's, taking the opportunity to escape from his apartment to go see other good friends I have been missing over the summer I had lot's of fun, but it was also quite different from my usual rut this summer in which I'm holed up in an apartment working at my laptop 24/7. I've made myself a promise to spend time outside every day now for the rest of the summer, to try to keep this energy level high =]
I'm going back to school! Prior to studying design and working freelance with art and design, I was an engineering student. I discovered that the university I used to attend now have a program that trains design and product development engineers, and I applied. I was accepted three days ago, and have now scheduled a meeting with my study councillor in a month's time from now. Quite possibly I will get to transfer at least 3 semesters worth of passed courses from my previous stay at the University into my new program, in the best case scenario I will be able to study courses from the first three years simultaneously and have a bachelor's degree in technology in 1,5 years. Possibly a masters degree in 3! (if I chose to take it that far). In the worst case scenario, I have to study at reduced speed and fill out the rest with freelance work, so the worst case scenario is far from bad even to begin with
The reason why I chose to do this is that in Sweden we have free tuition, I never really realised what an incredible opportunity that is until I went abroad to study. It will also give me a fixated point in my life again, which is nice as well. Studying is incredibly fun, and I'm really looking forward to it.
I have been busy! Sorry for all the lack of updates, both new drawings and journal content. I'm finding it harder and harder to balance out work with planning for the future and studies and personal projects. I' am considering ideas that would allow me to get more time into my personal work, specially my world building projects. More about that in a later journal.
I'm officially on vacation the whole day out (even though I'm home again) and I plan to spend the day doing exactly what I feel like doing! Hopefully I will feel like writing another Bi-Weekly entry later on (or finish one more likely, I have a few rough's since like a month ago) but we'll have to see! Anyway, enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Edit: Another incredible story is I've registered a twitter account, about half a decade behind the wagon but anyway. I haven't really made anything with it, but I plan to. So feel free to subscribe/follow/prenumerate or whatever nice name twitter has on their "Become my Groupie"-button. Thanks =]
Edit 2: And then I realised I actually never linked to my Twitter. #It's ok, I'm on vacation. <-see, already starting to get so pro at this twitter biz
And here it is twitter.com/CaconymDraws
Bye!
Jens
I've Been on Vacation! For a week... I really needed a break from work and drawing in general so I went to stay for a few days at my friend syncUP, followed by a couple of days at my Dad's, taking the opportunity to escape from his apartment to go see other good friends I have been missing over the summer I had lot's of fun, but it was also quite different from my usual rut this summer in which I'm holed up in an apartment working at my laptop 24/7. I've made myself a promise to spend time outside every day now for the rest of the summer, to try to keep this energy level high =]
I'm going back to school! Prior to studying design and working freelance with art and design, I was an engineering student. I discovered that the university I used to attend now have a program that trains design and product development engineers, and I applied. I was accepted three days ago, and have now scheduled a meeting with my study councillor in a month's time from now. Quite possibly I will get to transfer at least 3 semesters worth of passed courses from my previous stay at the University into my new program, in the best case scenario I will be able to study courses from the first three years simultaneously and have a bachelor's degree in technology in 1,5 years. Possibly a masters degree in 3! (if I chose to take it that far). In the worst case scenario, I have to study at reduced speed and fill out the rest with freelance work, so the worst case scenario is far from bad even to begin with
The reason why I chose to do this is that in Sweden we have free tuition, I never really realised what an incredible opportunity that is until I went abroad to study. It will also give me a fixated point in my life again, which is nice as well. Studying is incredibly fun, and I'm really looking forward to it.
I have been busy! Sorry for all the lack of updates, both new drawings and journal content. I'm finding it harder and harder to balance out work with planning for the future and studies and personal projects. I' am considering ideas that would allow me to get more time into my personal work, specially my world building projects. More about that in a later journal.
I'm officially on vacation the whole day out (even though I'm home again) and I plan to spend the day doing exactly what I feel like doing! Hopefully I will feel like writing another Bi-Weekly entry later on (or finish one more likely, I have a few rough's since like a month ago) but we'll have to see! Anyway, enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Edit: Another incredible story is I've registered a twitter account, about half a decade behind the wagon but anyway. I haven't really made anything with it, but I plan to. So feel free to subscribe/follow/prenumerate or whatever nice name twitter has on their "Become my Groupie"-button. Thanks =]
Edit 2: And then I realised I actually never linked to my Twitter. #It's ok, I'm on vacation. <-see, already starting to get so pro at this twitter biz
And here it is twitter.com/CaconymDraws
Bye!
Jens
Perspective Mentorships 20% off! and Twitch stream
Hi Everyone, I have a couple of topics I just briefly want to let you know about. First, I have two lots left for perspective mentorships so I’m having a flash sale, and second I have decided to use Twitch for streaming in a more regular fashion. Perspective mentorships, 20% off! For those of my deviantart friends who don’t know, I teach 1-to-1 online ‘mentorships’ focused on perspective drawing. About 1 and a half year ago I made major updates to how I go about it, which you can read about in my previous journal on it here. or you can follow this link to my website: https://caconymdesign.com/tutoring Today’s news is that I have two slots left on the five week bundle before the end of the year, and if you are interested in learning how to put perspective drawing theory into practice I would love to help you out! Please send me an email to jensbeng@gmail.com and put Perspective in the title, and let me know you’re interested in the message and I will get back at you as soon as able.
Tutoring - Sketch in Perspective
Hi Everyone,
This spring I have been working hard on updating and redesigning the way I tutor perspective drawing. I am so so excited to finally share it. In this journal I will describe in broad strokes how it will work from now on.
If you are interested in studying perspective drawing with me, please send me an email at jensbeng@gmail.com. Make sure to put "Perspective drawing" in the title so I don't miss it.
What is perspective drawing?
Perspective drawing is a fundamental idea in drawing. It is a mathematical model for how we see geometry around us in the world, and is used both to draw in perspective and to guess and evaluate propo
Tutorial Suggestions
Hi,
I will get right to the point. Over the last 6 years I have accumulated a lot of knowledge about drawing and design. But except for through my tutoring I don't share as much of this knowledge that I would like.
The main barrier for me is that once I learn something well enough, I tend to forget how useful that piece of knowledge really was (as I rush on to learn the next thing). Therefore, I'm open to suggestion about mini-tutorials and questions. Could be anything from how to draw horns to perspective tricks or my thoughts about some part of the design process. Really blue sky question, I will be happy for any feedback!
Thank you for
Ask simple questions - How to improve #1
It’s almost (short of about two weeks) been six years now since I made the active decision to learn to draw and design. However, if you knew a little bit more about my life you might have objections to that statement.
Illustrations made 3 and 4 months after the decision of actively trying to learn - at this point in time I saw drastic changes from week to week and month to month.
People I grew up with will know that I was the kid who always drew on the margins of my notes in class. That I spent lots of my free time drawing on my own designs and characters for all my little projects I never ended up completing (I enjoyed the design pha
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glad you had a nice break, was wondering what happened to bi-weekly journals since I like reading them so much.
good look with uni and possibly getting BA so quickly i also never really appreciated fact that in Poland (my home country) uni is free until I went to study in UK and found out about costs. other story is that most courses are crap unless you move to really big city (I studies landscape architecture for two years and instead of learning how to design I learnt about planets, seeds and how to plant potatoes). but hey, I graduated few weeks ago while having baby, so I bet you'll be able to do your uni tasks and personal project with ease.
yes for twitter, instant follow
good look with uni and possibly getting BA so quickly i also never really appreciated fact that in Poland (my home country) uni is free until I went to study in UK and found out about costs. other story is that most courses are crap unless you move to really big city (I studies landscape architecture for two years and instead of learning how to design I learnt about planets, seeds and how to plant potatoes). but hey, I graduated few weeks ago while having baby, so I bet you'll be able to do your uni tasks and personal project with ease.
yes for twitter, instant follow