Tuesday, December 27, 2011  A Two Week Sojourn in the Land of
the Rising Sun  For many years SCAD's Sequential Art department
has offered a Tokyo Seminar for two weeks during Winter Break.
 Students (a varying number, this year was 26) travel to Japan
and meet up with two professors (Ray Goto and Mark Jantze) to
study Japanese culture and comics.  Highlights include a trip to
Disney Sea, a visit with Takeshi Miyazawa, the Imperial Gardens,
several shrines and cemetaries, and trips to several museums
including the Ghibli Museum.  Students were encouraged to
practice gesture drawing and were given free time to explore
Japan.  The application process was slightly nerve wracking, but
not particularly difficult.  I filled out several forms,
submitted a CD with my portfolio, and wrote a statement on why I
wanted to attend the trip.  I was one of the six graduate
students selected to go on the trip, and Heidi and I were
looking forward to a cultural tour of Tokyo.  For this post, I'm
going to rely on sketches, photo