End of the Year

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This will be my last blog post for Life Drawing 1. I can't believe how fast this year has gone, but I accomplished a lot in it. Coming into this class I knew I would be learning more about the human body and I was very excited to understand how to draw them more accurately. I really had a hard time in the beginning adjusting to the class. Like I said in my earlier posts, I have always had the habit of taking my time with my drawings and going for detail and shading. This class called for a very different style and it required me to try to change my ways.
I really feel like I have progressed a lot in this class and am very proud of that fact. Struggling in the beginning was very frustrating for me and I could not keep up with the short 30 second gesture drawings. Drawing the live models was very different at first, but it is amazing how normal it becomes as you do it more and more. Contour lines were a little difficult for me at first, but it really is amazing how much it makes a drawing look dimensional. In the beginning we were only drawing the spine and rib cage. I think this was a reason I had a hard time in the start of the semester because I felt like the drawing was really unfinished and didn't make much sense. After adding more to the drawing and eventually the head it was much better in my mind. I think the mannequins were necessary for learning the muscles, but it was difficult as well for me. The books we had to look at were hard to figure out sometimes and the muscles were a little confusing at times. Other than that though, the class was a lot of fun.     
I think my favorite part we had drawn was the head and skull. It is the part I feel that gives the most life to the figure. This led to our self-portraits, that I think I did alright on, I just wish my eyes were at the same angle as my nose and mouth. All in all though, this semester has been successful. I have learned a lot and will help in my drawing and sketching methods. Thank you Amy for being such a great professor this semester!

Let's work inside on this nice day!

Mon-Wed Long Drawing

As I sit inside on this nice day doing all of my work that is due this week I thought to myself, oh crap I have to do my blog. Not really in the mindset to write this so I am going to make it quick, and it might not make a whole lot of sense....sorry if this happens. This week we worked on the head more. We worked on a two day drawing of the head as we had both models in the room. It was a good experience drawing a model rather than just getting a partner to draw from because there was more time involved and I didn't have to worry about taking my time and making the other person hold their face for too long. I really like the long drawings because it really allows me to take my time and try to get the forms to look correct. On Monday since I knew it was a two day drawing, I worked really slow to the point where I almost wish I had another day after Wednesday. It looked "alright" but no way was I happy with it. I had trouble with the mouth and had erased it a thousand times (literally) and still could not get the likeness of the model. I think it looks too feminine. If this was a photograph I was working from then It would be a lot easier, but there is something about seeing 3d real space that makes it so much more difficult. We also got assigned our self-portrait final drawing this week. Thank god it isn't due until Friday because I think I would have a brain aneurysm if it was due before that. I am trying to organize my time some what so I decided it would be best to start it right away so I did. I already have a good foundation but my damn mouth is a problem again. Once I fix that I think it will look more like me. Good bye for now.