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Today I got Vectorworks 2009 in the mail and YESTERDAY I got my Genius G-Pen 450 tablet so I'm about to have some good ol Scene Design FUN.

The tablet I got for under $50 via Amazon and the Vectorworks was free because I'm a student. Plus I'm just really getting into making sure I have all my bases covered. It's great to be a good hand-drafter- I don't think I'm half bad. I ain't no Howard Jones but I ain't too horrible either. I do think that I should be up with the industry standards and have some means of transporting Computer-drafted material when I end up working away from the director/ TD.

And I am going to play around with copying the techniques of several professional designers as far as rendering goes. Bill, the Costume Design teacher, was teaching the costumers to figure out their own rendering technique by first forcing them to copy renderings by famous designers. What happens as you do such as thing is that your mind begins to figure out the way these designers THINK. And after you've copied a few people, you go to do your own thing and you make it something completely different.

So I would like to do a Franco-inspired rendering as well as a Jose.

I know it' going to be very time consuming and especially difficult- it takes a little less time to draw a person than it does to get the perspective on a scenic rendering. At least for me.

Then my other project idea is to create a model piece from my book on building better model scenery.

And my OTHER other project of course is to read as many of the shows we're doing next year as possible in order to prepare for whatever they might give me.

I pretty much have my work cut out for me.