Summary

Overall, Life Drawing was a very intimidating class for me in the beginning. The idea of drawing in 3-D was scary, but after an entire semester of practicing and becoming more comfortable with the drawing technique, I started to become very happy with some of my drawings. It's hard to draw what the eye see's, not using shading and other ways other then "line" to create these forms.

I guess for being so scared, I ended up really enjoying coming to class and I was amazed how fast time went during class, because I became so involved with the drawing and nothing else around. Which is like no other art-form for me. I've never been delicate, or relaxed, and thats what happened in Life Drawing for me, and hopefully it will be part of my future art work.

Final

My maniken was one of the harder parts of Life Drawing. But I did find it very interesting and relaxing as I did during mid-term. Figuring out exactly were the muscles are in the leg and body was interesting. I understand why we did it and how it came into helping out how to draw.

These are 2 of the longer poses we did during class. The women is a bit not very proportional but because of the angle i was drawing her at, it became quit difficult. The man was one of my better drawings of the semester. I remember really feeling it that day, and was on top of my drawing game.

My five best gestural drawings are much better then during the mid-term period. I think I've become really good and telling were the hips and the rib cage are suppose to be placed on the body, and being able to really tell what position the model was in, is apparent in the sketches.

My Ink Shell drawing turned out pretty good. I was really scared to actually do the Ink process since the underdrawing turned out so well. The bottom image is in process of creating this shell, and as you can see i was having a problems. I then decided to treat the drawing more like a watercolor painting and I feel as though by doing this, the shell became much more 3-dimensional.

Hands and Feets

We've been working on many different things in class, but we have been focusing on Hands and Feet. The foot became of one of my stronger understandings of the body. I dont know why but the heal, to the arch, to the pads, to the toes was easy for me to see, and I feel as though my foot drawings were very successful!