experience post: lunchtime lecture with oura sananikone

Although I did not have the chance to attend the lunchtime lecture in-person due to a mandatory meeting, I really enjoyed watching the video back afterwards, and learned a lot more about what it's like to actually work in the arts from a source other than people I personally know or more objective career post research. I found it really interesting that although he chose to work in multiple mediums like comics, toys, etc., he was really able to keep up a unified and interesting style. That is definitely one of the things that I want to focus on this summer leading into Art 4 - I really love working with all kinds of mediums, but I don't want next year to be a situation where I find myself restricted to one. Instead, I really want to find a theme, style, or motif and work within that, as our guest artist did.

It was especially interesting for me to hear about comics because of my experience taking our Pop Culture elective with Mr. U! We learned extensively about the history of comics, the different comic "ages," and the evolution of comics since the 70s and 80s, and I found myself able to connect changing themes and art styles in comics to our lunchtime lecture in a really interesting way.