a stripper mathematician

One of the recent briefs at uni was to create a character, work out his/her personality and show him(her) at three different stages of life.  Then I had to make her move, showing a change of mood through the walk.

So, please say hi to Ruby, a stripper mathematician from a small town in America.

 She’s smart and optimistic, but a bit impulsive.  She's not pretty but the way she moves and her voice make her very attractive.

She was very shy at school, but changed a lot after a while. She was always brilliant at math classes and went to college to study science.  After her parents died  she decided to go travel around the country, hitchhiking and working as a strip dancer. Now she has settled in another small city  working as a mathematician in a primary school (her brother is one of the sponsors of this school that’s why they took her here) - kids love her because she’s cool and kind, other teachers respect her but trying to convince to follow dress code Her dream is to make her own show in Las Vegas and go travel around the world. She can do that if she wins a pole-dance championship, but she needs to work hard, get some money for costumes and special effects.

When she got old, she's sort of "super-granny", having several grandchildren and cooking pancakes every weekend. She lives in countryside, has a vintage scooter and a lazy cat. Nobody knows about her stripper career as she tells everybody she was a ballet dancer.

Some concept sketches, emotions and body moves:

Character sheet for the animation:

Here she is, walking in the room

writing

Oh my! As much as I love to draw as much I hate to write. 

There is a hand-in for the assessment at my college on the following Monday and we are supposed to write A LOT! The funniest thing is that I can keep talking the whole day, no matter what is the subject. But when it comes to the putting words on paper, I'm trying to avoid it as much as possible. I know, I know, it's not clever at all, especially if we are supposed to write a journal almost every day. I've been doing that but in my own way - mind maps, visual notes and random sketches. So I can recover almost every hour  spent working on a project.  It's more or less the same method which is working with travelbooks - with photos or written diary I can remember just that particular moment. But with this sketchbook here comes the whole emotional and mental state from that moment. Here are smells and sounds, ideas and thoughts, the whole atmosphere around... 

But I totally understand that being professional means to be able to communicate your message clearly. And it's an industry standard to be able to use written word. That's why I do my best to improve this skill as well. But it doesn't mean that this understanding helps me to fight with my procrastination when I'm starting to write. Here it happened again. Can I just draw a wall-sized visual representation of my report?

back to uni

Yesterday we've got a new brief. Now it's about working in 3D environment and how we can represent objects in the real world. As a digital geek I can't say it's too interesting for me, but as a street art fan it might lead to something exciting. Let's see :)
Meanwhile here are my first steps into the 'material world':

funny or scary?

It happens again and again - when I've thought about something it always comes. Just an example: I was thinking recently that it might be interesting and useful for me to work with infographic and visual notetaking. Guess what? I've got a commissioned job yesterday - to create an illustration  presenting a start-up business to potential investors. The deadline is pretty soon, so I should work hard - which is the best way to get into something.
Another thing - I've got two interviews this week about my possible internship. One at a publishers's office (begin to work this Monday), another at a marketing agency (hopefully join them next month). The funniest thing is that right now I've found my notes and thoughts in old sketchbook about plans for summer - there are many drawings but just two words: "publishers + agency"

plans for summer

It's going to be busy summer. Not because of Olympics, but mostly because I have so much exciting things for to do. Starting from personal development -I need to learn more about typography and apps programming, interactivity and processing, Swiss design and book binding, visual thinking and metaphoric language, video art and animation, graffiti and guerrilla image making.. Without mentioning that I hope to get internship or any other student job to get real-life experience. Also I really should study copyright law and practices - it's not that interesting as other things but completely necessarily now.