Reviews of professor Brian Bowes

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Bowes was great, lots of work but learned a lot and got lots of work for your portfolio. I took him along with 2 other studios and managed fine. He was very accommodating, understanding, and easy to reach outside class. If you want an easy A or blowoff studio- this class is not for you. Great for people serious about their careers and portfolio.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Bowes expects a lot of work and does little to accommodate students. If this is your only studio it may not be so bad, but the workload is intense and Bowes does not care if you have other studios and projects. He is allergic to in-class work time, so be prepared to do all of your projects outside of class with minimal feedback.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want to pass the homework, you need to work hard 100 times. Not only he will give you a lot of works, but it also will mark you absent without reason. Won't retake this Professor. He gave me an awful feeling of the illustration major as my freshman year.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do NOT take this class if you're already swamped with work. He assigns egregious amounts of work, and his assignments are vague to the point of frustration. That, and his forced excitement, cringy jokes all throughout class, and him not going in detail with assignments makes him a terrible teacher in my opinion. Don't take him.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Bowes is funny and driven. He also gives good critique. In my opinion, he could have really organized his time and his course works better. If he continues his normal methods, you can expect 10 sketchbooks (which are really 13) 3 essays, and 5 assignments (actually 7). By the end of the class I was burned out. Good luck.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof bowes is a very nice guy, but oh man was his class frustrating. He would make you do all this work and then tell you to change everything within the last steps of the project. His project criteria was also not very clear at times. As someone who doesnt enjoy reading too much, I really didnt enjoy this class. Last project is quite hard.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I appreciated Prof Bowes' class a ton. It's probably one of the most work-heavy classes I'd ever taken, but it's all work I ended up being proud of

- Weekly quizzes that quote directly from the textbook. GET THE TEXTBOOK
- He makes himself available during class time, and helps out a lot. You just gotta ask.
- Weekly exercises pile onto workload