I was meeting some friends and members of the IO in the “Aquazoo in Düsseldorf”; a big aquarium with lots of nice fish. I don’t fancy to draw fish, I don’t know how to define their body forms and shapes. I guess, I don’t like that they all seem so arbitrarily in their forms, that there is not a real rule attached to them.
But the structures and colors of them are so amazing. Too bad, that I just sketch in black & white :)

I am also attending a drawing class. My study at the university of Düsseldorf left lots of space for wonderful typography lessons, but not really for drawing classes: illustration was nothing more than dalmatians are for Cruella de Vil.

My new drawing class is taught by a Russian artist from the St. Petersburg art academy, which is awesome only that all of the attendees are on an extremely low skill level. Some of them are really weired:

I think that one of them spies on me :) do you remember this Eager Beavers who sat next to you spying on what you were writing, pulling back, holding their arms all over what they were writing, in case you wanted to spy on them (which they did already in first place). Well, anyway, I have an older lady, probably 50, who talks in a very precocious way, and when she sits next to me, she spies like that at my drawings: giving exaggeratedly looks, pulling back, holding her arms over her own drawings. Haha, that makes me feel quite weird.
Another woman was insisting that there was a pencil stealer in the room and that she saw that I have the same pencils than her. Funny, I don’t have these pencils. But she was telling everybody outside while smoking.
Well, as you see, I am not so well with the people there, but the teacher is fantastic. He knows what I need: perspective and anatomy. Even though I read a lot about perspective, I am so much more happy that he tells me the tricks and just force me to do perspective, which I usually avoid.
It is also a nice way to get out of my own habits of drawing in black and white and experiment again.

And here is a music-video in which I fell in love with. I want to buy a little praxinoscope and experiment with it and do animation again (its just 16 frames, perfect!)

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