The AIGA Link Program workshop to start the program year was Dynamic Life Drawing with Jeff Hanada. A late model caused some to panic, while volunteers led the students in warm up exercises in their sketchbooks. Then, while we waited for the back up model to arrive, Joe Peha showed off his posing abilities for some quick gesture drawings. When the model arrived nearly at the same time as the back up model the students were given the opportunity to draw both male and female forms in poses of 3, 5 and 10 minutes long. By the end the students had progressed from small, cramped line drawings to full figure and full paper sized drawings that showed both volume, movement and often detailed aspects of the model. The final half hour of the workshop was spent in a volunteer led critique which drew attention to the progress the students made and affirmed what they had learned. As the students waited for their rides to arrive when asked about how they thought the workshop went many students said it was hard, but that they really liked the difference between their first and last drawings.
The AIGA Link Program's October workshop was Poster Design with world-renowned designer Robynne Raye from Modern Dog Design Co. She asked the students to create a poster about a cause they are passionate about using found magazine collage, cut paper and sumi ink. Some popular causes chosen by the students were environmental disasters, self image, animal rights and pollution. After creating their posters students talked about their posters in a half hour critique. Finally, students participated in a raffle where one lucky student received a copy of Robynne's book, Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art. Students were then sent home with other various Modern Dog paraphernalia including the bumper sticker: "I'm not gay, I just like rainbows" and the ever popular Modern Dog deck of cards.
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