Life Drawing: Week 13

Hello everyone, welcome to my 13th week posting. As always this week has been pretty hectic with all the assignments piling up and trying make to time to apply to summer jobs. Lately I have been having a great lack in motivation to finish the semester strong. I do not know what it is, but I have been focusing a lot of my attention towards all the activities I have got planned for the summer. My car especially is going to be my largest summer project with rust starting to build up, dents, and scratches that needs repair. In addition I need to start training for volleyball tournaments this summer. I feel we have a great chance of getting placed within the top three. Anyways, as of right now I have got to focus on other priorities that matter most in my future. In life drawing we started working more with the facial features of the eyes, nose, lips, and ears. Out of all the features I feel the nose is the most challenging to get just right proportionately and three-dimensionally. Personally I feel if the nose is drawn incorrectly and moved slightly in any direction just a little bit from the proper area it ruins the person's entire face. This is probably the case because I feel the nose is the most focal point due to its location on the center of the face. Another feature aside from the nose that I find also difficult to draw are the eyes. Throughout my experience drawing people I have always had a difficult time drawing the eyes especially when it came to making them appear three-dimensional. I guess a problem that a lot of people and I share are making the outlines of the eyes the same thickness. By doing this I feel it makes the eyes appear more like a cartoons rather than an actual person's eyes.

 In this image was a drawing of one of our classmates I partnered with to draw each others nose. It was interesting just to observe all the details and different structures that go within the construction of a nose. Overall, I was not too satisfied with my drawing perhaps cause it still appeared a bit flat to me. I had a difficult time getting all the shadows in the right area and right shade of darkness. Perhaps, sometime this summer I can spend some of time working with drawing faces to get more experience drawing the nose.

This drawing of my partner's eye was quite interesting to see all the planes that make it up. I think I should try using a charcoal pencil next time so I can really get the dark areas darker, such as the upper lid of the eye where the lashes start to extend from. Again l was not satisfied with the outcome of this drawing. I think I just need to play around with changing the thicknesses of my line quality and the highlights of the eye.