LAST BLOG POST!

Well, here it is, the last Life Drawing blog post I have to do.  It's been a roller coaster ride of a semester, each day was different, some days I felt pretty confident with my drawings, but other days I felt I really crashed and burned.  Early on I really struggled with line weight and drawing with cross-contour lines, but, as the semester progressed, I really feel that my drawing skills have improved.  It was fairly easy to notice a marked improvement in my drawing abilities while looking through my older drawings from the beginning of the semester. 

The upper left image here is one of my first long drawings.  The lower right image is one of my final long drawings.  I can certainly tell that my observational skills as well as my general drawing abilities have improved.  As much as I resisted the process early on, I feel that I've really come to appreciate the style of drawings we were expected to do.  Life Drawing has certainly improved my

In the end, I was fairly happy with how my mannekin turned out.  I found the process of placing the muscles on the mannekin to be highly tedious, but, in the end it was very satisfying to see it finished.  Follow this link to my portfolio on Flickr.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinnowc/sets/

Crunch Time.

Well... Last week was the week that the pile of work hit all across the board.  The end of the semester approaches and I'm feeling the pressure. 
This week in Life Drawing 1 we focused primarily on drawing the shoulder.  I've been looking forward to learning how to draw the shoulder for most of the semester.  After learning a little more about how the shoulder girdle is constructed I was certainly able to draw it with more confidence.  One thing that I certainly struggle with, and, at this point, may not get in this semester, is simply where to place cross-contour lines.  I'm able to place them to bring some sense of volume to the form, but I feel like I'm doing a wire frame inside an outline instead of actually using the cross-contour lines to define the form.  I think it would be a lot easier is we could draw a model that looked like this guy.