Just had to share this with you..

Today I've attended my very first Life Drawing class! I've always thought "life drawing" meant drawing things from life, realistic things, you know? Turns out, naive as I am, it's all about drawing naked people...! So, this evening I've been staring at a naked man for about two hours, trying to do him justice on my little sheet of paper. I haven't really seen that many naked people in my life, but surprisingly it wasn't all that awkward. Everyone else was staring at him too, anyway. And when you get into the spirit of drawing, it's really all about abstract shapes fitted together. You have to look at it like lines and shadows, not arms and legs.

So there you go, my first real academic experience, evolving a naked man. And this was all of my own initiative. I'm trying to do as much as I can outside of school, and take advantage of all the magnificent things London has to offer. Have to say I quite liked the class (nothing to do with the lack of clothing), and the drawing practice will be extremely helpful as we are starting life drawing classes at the College as well. I can feel my creative brain cells starting to stir in my head already.

I <3 London

Okay, so I've moved to this fashion capital all by myself, and am now starting to settle in. You can imagine the shock though, with 6 million people living here stuffed in one city, while in Norway the 4,5 million inhabitants have a whole country to rome around in.

But anyway, I live literally a 2 minutes' walk away from London College of Fashion, where I'm doing my foundation course in Art and Design. And that is absolutely fabulous. Even when I get up ten minutes before college starts, I still totally make it. And I can go home for lunch, which saves loads of money.

So far we haven't really done any real work at school yet, so everyone's quite relaxed. BUT! The pressure really starts in a week, I guess, when we start all the visual studies and surface manipulation workshops and whatnot. Classes start at 09:30am and last 'till 6:30pm, so there's not much room for other activities. But we do have Mondays off, on which I think I'll find some drop-in life drawing classes. We also have half of the day on Wednesday off, and that is when I've signed up for a Japanese language course. Can't wait for that to start!

One really has to do as much as one can, living in a fantastic city like this, with opportunities lurking around every corner. Immerse yourself in the creative environment!