Life Drawing: Week 9

Hi everyone, welcome to my 9th week posting.  It has been a difficult week getting back into school mode, especially getting back into the habit of drawing again. Aside from the life drawing class I have had an interesting week catching up with my other classes. Anyways, this week we focused on areas of the shoulder, back, and obliques. This week we had time to work on both our manikin and our drawings.  As the course moves forward it becomes more difficult to draw all the components of the body within the 30 seconds gesture drawings. Although it has been getting harder, I believe it will help benefit our drawings when we do our 45 to an hour drawing.

On Friday, it was interesting to get a different perspective rather than the female model. In this drawing of the male model, he was positioned awkwardly making it difficult to begin the drawing. As I observe the drawing it appears that the torso area was a bit too long. I had trouble locating most of body parts, especially the shoulder blades. I hope as the class move forwards I will learn to locate the body parts easier. Overall I think this drawing turned out okay, but I just wish I could have located the main body parts.

This week we were assigned several muscle groups such as the teres minor, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, teres major, serratus anterior, rhomboid minor, and rhomboid major. It was quite intimidating after receiving the assignment as it seemed like a never ending list of muscle parts. I was amazed how quickly I completed the assignment. Although I have completed the assignment I was still confused if all the muscles I attached were put on correctly. I believe one of the hardest parts about the manikin assignments are just determining if they are attached correctly. Hopefully sometime this week I can get my manikin checked by our instructor. Overall, I like how the manikin is looking.

Life Drawing: Week 7

Hello, welcome to my new posting. This week we moved away from the body of our life figures and began focusing more on the leg and feet. Unlike the previous weeks I believe we were able to balance out working with both the manikin and drawing in class. I felt it was quite beneficial to have a sense of balance rather than focusing more on one than the other. As we looked closer at the form and shape of the feet it was interesting to break down the individual parts into box like forms before going in into details. I think this approach was a good learning experience that I can apply to more of what I do in my Industrial Design work. So far in class I have noticed that the feet has been one of the most difficult forms to draw. I found it quite challenging than most of the other features we have focused in class. If we were to draw the some part of the feet incorrectly then I felt the whole drawing was destroyed. In addition, It was difficult to distinguish where the planes of the feet met. This made it difficult to draw a realistic replication of the foot.

1 Hour-Foot Drawing

This drawing was drawn towards the end of the class on Friday of our male model. As I was drawing the feet I had trouble maintaining the individual planes on the toes and from making them appear like little sausages. After some addition help from the instructor, it was interesting to see that even the toe nails had a certain thickness. By giving the toe nails each individual planes I was able to create a more three dimensional image of the nails. Overall, I was satisfied with the results of my drawing. As the class continues I hope to improve my drawing skills in this class.

Midterm Blog Posting

This first half of the semester has been an incredible journey. It has gone by so quickly yet I have learned so much within the time period. The class has been one of the most interesting classes I have taken so far. It was fun to experience a different drawing style that I am not traditionally used to. I can say my ability to draw the human body has improved significantly from when I first entered the class. Although I have had similar classes in the past, this has been one of the most beneficial. It was interesting to explore all the unique features of the human anatomy that helps form the figure. I enjoyed how the class broke down each section of the human body. This allowed us have a better understanding of each piece, rather than trying to learn everything at once. I enjoyed working with the manikin because it helped me develop a greater perspective on how the muscles were aligned and layered together. By being able to work with the manikins and incorporate what we learn to the drawings it helped make a dramatic difference when drawing the life figure. I was able to see where the rib cage and pelvis where located easier, unlike before when I was not aware of their placement.

30 Minute Drawing

This is probably one of my better drawings I have done in class. I tried to incorporate everything we have learned in class by capturing the rib cage, spine, and pelvic regions. I tried to capture the proper form of each region using simple contour lines to represent to roundness of the forms. Overall I thought the drawing was pretty successful and portrayed the life figure well. I believe as the class progresses I hope I will be able to draw the rest of the figure in correct proportion and form. 

Please check out my other drawings and the manikin on my Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59964810@N07/