When I was going to Edinboro University back in 2004 I was pursuing a major in Animation. The problem was that they took a physical definition of animation where it was more about drawing than anything else. They we teaching us to animate bouncing balls rather than making stories. And the majority of the program was based in fine arts.
The professors were very intense, expecting you to meet expectations without telling you what the expectations are. It was a crapshoot every time you turned in a project so the one time I actually got praise on a project I remembered it. The projects that I did the best on were studies of light and dark charcoal.
On newsprint.
Using white and black charcoal pencils the class was supposed to sketch the model in lights and darks on top of the gray newspaper pad. I was able to turn off presumptions of how I should draw the model and actually draw them based on how the model appeared. The model was wearing steel frame glasses that reflected the light. I was the only one who drew her glasses with white highlights and dark lines where the shadows fell, the rest of the students said "Glasses are drawn like this" and gave her big thick Buddy Holly glasses rather than look for the shadow.
Anyway, when I was trying to figure out how I wanted to draw the ghosts with the people, I remembered back to Edinboro project and the charcoal pencils on newsprint.
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