FEET

these are the feet drawings that i had critiqued in class. i got some good feedback but lost the paper i had the comments written on. i think the more developed one has good contour lines that help create space and the other one is an interesting form that seems somewhat abstract but is also obviously a foot.

BONE

this is a later contour drawing of a femur. i think i used good line weight, the perspective and proportion is believable

BLOGGING

I don't think that creating and maintaining a blog has hindered or helped my experience in Life Drawing 1. I think it would have been more useful to be able to reach each others blogs from the general Life Drawing 1 blog but even if that were the case I'm not sure that I would be that interested in communicating with the class in that way. It's kind of fun to keep track of development via a blog and I think its important because of its popularity in contemporary culture but I just never really got into it. I do like the fact that it forced me to document my drawing and manikin through photos but I think I missed out on the 'Flicker' day so they're all on here and it's kind of annoying and hard to look at.

DRAWING THE FIGURE

Overall I think the class was great. I love drawing. When the class first started I thought that I would learn to draw the figure and it would be great but would probably not influence the work I produce after the class. I realize that it has had an impact. I think its exciting to look at the way I normally would draw and to be able to utilize an entirely new visual vocabulary in the same drawings. I'm not sure if the way my drawings look is very noticeable but I approach drawing differently. I can see progress in the development of the model drawings. The line weight used is much more diverse and the contour lines seem much more intentional. Perspective and proportion have also become much more believable. I think the gesture drawing has become worse. Along with being distracted with the complicated form of various body parts I think it also may have been effected by the lack of consistent models to draw from. I really enjoy building the manikin and drawing the skeleton. I think that understanding the skeletal system has been more beneficial in understanding how to draw the human form than understanding the musculature system.

Figure Drawings From A Model

extracurricular 'figure drawing'

Selection from "54 People Whose Names I Remembered"

Gesture

Gesture drawing was the hardest part for me. In the beginning I thought that it was good and I was able to make a lot of gestures in the time frame but after I learned more about how to create more complicated drawings of body parts it was hard for me to get any amount of gestures done in the time frame. I tended to focus on what I knew about how to draw the various parts and I would never get very far or have much to show from the gesture drawing times.

Outside of the class I do a lot of drawings of people that come across as gesture drawings and learning about drawing the figure has helped make my illustration of those types of drawings more sophisticated.

Manikin

I really enjoyed making the manikin. It was interesting to learn about anatomy and to try to build muscles that looked exactly the way they would in the body. I don't know that it aided in drawing the figure. I think the most beneficial thing in learning to draw the figure was the lectures about the bones and seeing the parts of the body drawn out in skeletal form by Amy. But regardless of that and aside from how gross the clay is, I had fun building the human musculature system.

Manikin Mis-hap

The first manikin I had was almost done and it fell on the floor and broke completely in half. I had to take all the muscles off and replace them on a new manikin and apoxy the broken one back together. It was kind of good because the first one I had was really crappy from the start and was really hard to work with in the first place. The foot wasn't attached which is why it fell off and broke in half.