Final Post

This year i learned a lot in life drawing, ore than i thought that i did looking back at my old gesture drawings. I was told in a portfolio review recently that i mostly seemed to just care for the outline and not really pay attention to the 3D form. I learned more about contour than i thought i would. Learning how to use ink washes was a challenge for me for me to get at first, but after experimenting and spending some time just working with it, i got the hang of it. One of the things that i did learn is that i do not much care for charcoal, its too dirty and destroys newsprint after it's been erased more than once. Line quality became important i realized to create more depth in the images than just by making the shapes.

I have greatly improved on my gesture drawings that i did before, my later gesture drawing were mostly about the form proportions and and the the perspective of the models. This lead to me getting much more accurate drawing because i had everything the right size. I feel my conch's improved greatly over the semester, my last conch was definitely my favorite, and the most moody in my opinion. The one thing that i do wish is that we had more models toward the end of the semester, it felt as if as we started to learn the whole body, we had no one to practice on. The other thing, is i think that we should have more times where we just work for an hour or so in class on the model, than we can check it more fequently and we don't spend an entire class on it.

I ended up having a lot of fun in this class, i liked the drawings that i made in it, and i learned how to study humans much better. I will be able to take my understanding of 3D forms and human proportions (which are awesome proportions) and incorporate them into my Design sketches and my drawings later in life.

Gestures - http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/siriusthedogstar/Gesture%20Drawings/

Long Poses - http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/siriusthedogstar/Long%20Drawings/

Homework - http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/siriusthedogstar/Home%20Work/

Mannequin - http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q105/siriusthedogstar/Mannequin/

Just as a note, i did put a few more gesture drawings on, because i went through several stages and wanted to show my learning as i got better.

skullz

This week, molly was absent on mondays, so we jumped into the skull early. WE started out by learning all of the basic shapes that are in a skull. The one thing that i wish that we would have gone over is how to quickly sketch the proportions of a skull so we can accurately draw it underneath the skin. But we did do three still life's that ended up totally looking badass (mostly because skullz are totally badass).

This week in life drawing we finished the shoulders and started working on the hands. The shoulders i had a difficult time at first taking the lecture, and then applying it to real life. The problem was that whenever we learn a new area of the body, the images are drawn by Amy are like they are on a robust male. Then when we get to the life drawing portion of the class, we have these skinny little models (now I'm not complaining...) but it is a little confusing to apply it. An then when i have to switch back to drawing robust males, the proportions are so totally different. I suppose that is just every human being unique and i just have to apply my knowledge to their body. This week i also switched up my gesture drawing style, to capture the position of the body rather than just the body itself. I think i can move through a person faster and more accurately this way. When we started the hand, we had no lecture, and the first drawing was a little difficult, amy just gave a skeleton hand though, and from there is was fairly simple. I am starting to like the class more now, but i still think my grade is BS.

This week

This week was bad, I got a C in the class long after actual midterm, and a C+ on the conch that i thought i rocked. I don't have that much good to say about the class other than i do not enjoy it anymore.

Semester Reflection

Thus far, this has been a weird semester... not this class but overall. In life drawing however i feel i am learning lots (except when i miss class [sorry amy!]) and i am really enjoying what we've done so far. I feel drawing from models is really helping me learn human form. But the mechanics, the stuff we learn from the board is really what's helping me learn, my brain cannot draw unless it has a 3D understanding of what it's drawing, and all of the ribcage hip stuff is really helping. I'm having fun in class, thinking of packing a lunch though to the next one...

LA JETEE

First walking into the curtained off room in the walker, i assumed LA JETEE was just another fartsy piece of work, before i knew it i was totally enthralled.

LA JETEE 28 minutes of pictures with a single narrator telling a story of a man in paris just after World War III. The man the story follows is a prisoner who is trapped in Dr. Frankenstein's Lab. The Lab technicians are trying to expirament with time travel on the prisoner's. They want to send a man into the future to find a way to save the present, but to send a man into the future they had to clear his memory of the past. The main Character (who was never named) goes through days of electrotherapy, in hours, he trips backwards in time a memory of a womans face from when he was a child, he is an adult now and falls in love with the woman, she is the only thing that his brain can focus on after all of the expiraments and torture. Every time he goes back he finds the woman again, in another part of Paris, and the woman comes to accept the main character a ghost who keeps popping up in her life. At the end of movie the main is able to go into the future and get a power source, and as a last request from the people in the future, he asked to be sent into the past where he would be with the woman, but when he goes back, he realizes there is no past and time is a perception that humans have created, and he dies.

LA JETEE was made in 1928 by Chris marker and is a beautiful use of photography to try and convey a message of how humans memory works.

Reflection

I thought this weeks drawing class was interesting. The lecture eat the beginning was very informative, but the gesture drawings were a little stale, i added limbs and legs to my gestures, so i could understand the pose. How her balance was shifted, why her shoulder blades were sticking out and so on. And on the whole opinion of the contour drawing it always seems like the people who have the worst contour drawings are the ones that get the highest regard... either way i learned a lot, and have a done a few drawings since on my own using what we learned.