This week has gone by extremely fast! I can't believe that spring break is only a week away, which means that this class is almost half over. However, it seems like we are just a few weeks into life drawing, yet my manikin is close to being covered with clay. So far from taking life drawing one, I have noticed a change in my drawing skills, I have learned a lot from this class, and I have learned to understand the human figure at a higher level.
Life drawing one has improved my drawing skills. Coming into life drawing one with drawing experience from the previous drawing classes I have taken, drawing one and drawing two, I have become faster. In drawing one and two I was use to being able to come in after class to finish or work on a drawing for as long as I wanted. Now I have to draw certain landmarks of the human body within a time frame, which has made me, speed up my slow drawing pace.
Additionally, life drawing one has taught me how to begin drawing the human body. Through countless exercises of gesture drawing I have learned to draw the underlying structure of the body. I have a hard time adding in all of the human landmarks that we have covered because I often find myself caught up in proportions. Even though I have a hard time drawing in all the information we have learned into a thirty-second gesture drawing it pushes me to draw fast and constantly move my shoulder so I can easily move around my drawing pad. I now know how to add in the pelvis, sacrum, sternum, mid-line, legs, ribs, abs, and butt into my drawings.
Also, I understand more about the human figure. In high school I had a human anatomy class so some of the material was review. However, I didn’t learn how to see and look for specific muscles under the skin. In drawing one I learned about the relationships the muscles share and also where the tendons connect to the bone vs. just the name of the bones and muscles. I also learned how certain muscles move under the skin from different poses making them more noticeable or even disappear.
Overall, as an art student I have benefited a lot so far from life drawing one and I hope to further improve. From my mid-term portfolio, in my standing-side drawing you can see how the quads and hamstrings bulge and thin out into tendons in order to connect to the bone of the knee. In my contoured back and side drawing, the bulge created by the ribs is evident along with indent of the spine from the tense back muscles. In the second half of the semester I hope I will keep improving on my speed and I want to keep the focus of my drawing on the anatomy of the body instead of sometimes forgetting about it and just getting carried away and drawing. In the second half of the semester I hope to learn how to draw the arm muscles and the clavicle because of the hollow space it creates and the clavicle in relation to the neck.
I don't know if were are going to have a half semester's room on the maniken for more clay. Unless we start covering up muscles, which would be depressing. I too feel that I have gotten faster and more competent in my drawings, but keep up the good work. There is only half a semester to go, lets make it count.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that everyone's drawings have improved drastically throughout this class so far, I never was able to draw a body accurately until I took this class and actually learned where everything was supposed to go.
ReplyDeleteI love your gesture drawings and your maniken by the way. Your maniken looks very neat, clean, and accurate, unlike mine. Good job!