Fulfilling my obligation to procrastination

I'm not sure how much of a success my first comic was. All my friends said the drawing style wasn't too bad but they either didn't get the joke or said that it was too subtle, which is ironic because I was worried it was a bit blunt.

I'm really supposed to be working on my presentation for core theory (due in two days) but I am allergic to working so I'm procrastinating and listening to music instead. From what little I've garnered by reading what some other webcomic artists have written about American art schools they sound very different from the one I'm going to.

I'm in second year studying SPI (Sculpture, Performance and Installation) and I have four classes a week: Studio Practical, Technics, Core Theory and Studio Theory.

Studio Practical is basically working in the studio, creating work and every now and then showing your lecturers or having a group critique. Group crit's are basically where the whole class and the lecturers check out your art work and then you have a class discussion on how successful it was. It's usually pretty friendly in the sense that no one will ever say "what a piece of shit". Everyone tries to be as helpful and constructive as possible so you're more likely to hear "I don't think this element of your work fits" or something similar and that's usually from the lecturers, you hear a lot more compliments from other students than you do criticisms. Practical is basically what everyone's there for.

Technics is basically a class where you learn practical things such as how to use the bandsaw or the forge. In first year we had technics classes to learn how to use all the machines in the workshop and we also learnt some stuff about casting. This year we learnt how to use a 3D imaging program called Form - Z which was pretty boring for me since I don't really make much sculpture (I prefer performance). But this term we're learning how to make and edit videos which should be pretty useful. The way my uni is organised there's actually not a lot of technical study; if you need to learn something it's up to you to help yourself. If you can find someone on campus who will teach you what you need to know that's great otherwise you'll have to look elsewhere. For example if I wanted to learn how to do metal casting we don't have the facilities to do that on campus so I would have to do some research on foundries. Fortunately if you ask around someone else usually knows how to do whatever it is you need help with and they'll help you out.

Core theory is the theory of art practice which everyone has to do. It's not too bad but the lectures can be a bit painful, especially when the lecturers talk like an essay. I can understand the essays but they do require a lot of work and trying to keep up with a lecturer is a lot more difficult. Whereas studio theory is studio intensive (duh) so the SPI studio learns about sculptural and performance practice. Less formal and generally more fun, this term we're learning about critical writing as opposed to essay writing which should be fun.

The thing is although we had a brief drawing class once per week last year which covered life, computer and experimental drawing there aren't really any intensive drawing classes and there aren't really any intensive computer studies classes either. I could always ask someone for a hand with that but it's not for my artistic practice and also I'm lazy.

So basically I'm not sure what I was trying to say (American art schools teach drawing and mine doesn't?) but I've realised that this whole post has been fuelled by procrastination and as much as I'd like to keep talking I should probably get back to work...