After Monday’s comic history slideshow we have started making the first longer comics. It’s rehearsals at this early stage so there’s no real pressure on the students when it comes to shape or contents. I don’t much care about the color of the beast, or how many legs it has, as long as it lives and breathes by noon tomorrow.
Most are progressing as planned (and instructed) while others are trying to break the mold in first go. The smarter of them will learn from that, those who don’t may succeed anyway. This first practical week is tryout time.
I know how hard it can be to work in a roundtable environment, and if asked nicely, I let individual students go elsewhere to work as long as they touch base before class ends at twelve. Although that is all well intended, morale is slipping a bit, and people seem to forget about asking before going off to wherever.
It’s a rotten way to end the week, but I’m going to have to bring that up tomorrow. The course I provide is very much an open playground, but it does have its confines, most importantly time. And, basically, it’s as much my time as their own that is squandered.
So tomorrow is Evil Teacher time.