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!

Senior Show

So i've been M.I.A in Life Drawing class, for the simple fact that I had the biggest thing in my college career happen last week which was my Senior Show. My show was called Linear Repertoire and it was a two person show with Briana Roelsers Paintings and my installation piece called "Safely, and Quietly Insane Every Night of My Life."

My piece involved me tediously placing text on a wall from a previous night dreams, creating an ambiguous narrative of what happened. I've never actually done the piece, so it was a new experience for myself. For me, I ended up exposing a lot about myself, and it felt good. Here's a few pics of the show... and soon will be my new shell! woot woot!

Mid-Way!

The first image i put was from one our first classes, I wanted to put it on here to show my progression which i think is a bit apparent!




To be honest... I was bit behind on my Man-E-cAN. But the last few days i've paid a lot of attention to him, and the actual act of building the muscles is actually really relaxing compared to some of the other work I've been having to do from other classes...



Shell...

5 Images of my "Best" Gesture Drawings...

The Semester Thus Far: Well I haven't dropped the class yet, so it's going better than it has in the passed :) For all seriousness though, fter going through my sketchbook I feel as though i've actually progressed dramatically. I'm starting to understand the bodies form and structure, and learning the muscle structure is really interesting.

Strengths: My strengths have come from drawing more organically than i ever have. Slowing way down and paying attention to line is something I've struggled with before, and lately when we do 30 min. drawings it feels as though its been 10. I also understand how the spine relates to the rest of the body with the "s" curve, and placing the ribs the the hips were there suppose to be.

Weaknesses: CONTOUR LINES. Even though I'm getting better and drawing organically, I struggle with the direction of contour lines, the spacing between contour lines, basically the 2 most important things about contour lines. It's something I'm going to really push myself to understand, and not have to ask the direction every time I do a drawing!!!

Some things I'd still like to learn: Obviously how to draw contour lines better. I'm hoping we get to work a little with drawing the Skull/Face. Its something in the passed that I haven't done very well when it come to self-portraits and stuff, so I wouldn't mind to learn just some of the basics.!

SkeTchEs!

Here are some sketches I did from last class that I'm actually a bit proud of...

Cubes

Within this last week the Advanced Sculpture class had a show in progress in Student Gallery 209. The piece is an annual thing for the Advanced class that happens every semester. This piece in particular required a lot of dedication and patience. Overall, I would say the piece was an overall success.