Life Drawing I: Week Thirteen: Reflection

MOUTH, EARS, HAIR, PARTNER DRAWINGS, AND HANDS
Today Amy went over the mouth, ears, and hair during lecture. Over Thanksgiving we were assigned to draw 5 eyes and 5 noses. Overall I thought that my drawings of those went pretty well.

After the lecture Amy asked us to partner up so that we could draw each others head and facial features. I was a bit nervous going into it but for my first portrait drawing I felt that it went fairly well. My biggest question was that I didn't really know where to start. After the 1/2 hour was up, I felt that my drawing was alright, but I felt like it didnt really look a whole lot like my partner.

As for the second half of the week, Amy had originally told us that we would be drawing off of on of our models. She decided to change her plans and have us partner up again so we were able to get a closer look at what we would be drawing. Our concentration for the day was mainly hands, with an ear or some other part of the head late in the period if we wished. I was able to get a hand, some fingers, and I attempted to tackle an ear as well.

With my first hand the biggest problem that I came across was where I should start. I decided to start with a ball shape and branch off some flanges from there. It worked alright. I seemed to have a lot of difficulty with this hand I think because there was a lot of fore-shortening of the fingers. Due to this my fingers look a bit like hot dogs!

My second hand I was much more successful! I decided to start with the pinkie finger and work my way around the hand that way. I feel that this hand turned out much better, and I was able to pay attention to smaller details which really helped!

For my last drawing I decided I wanted to tackle an ear. I felt that my ear's proportions and overall shape turned out pretty nicely. However, I also had a hard time making the ear look 3D and differentiating from the parts of the ear that were coming forward from the ones that were going back in space. I asked Amy to help me out and she gave me some great pointers on where to exaggerate planes a bit to give the ear a more 3D effect!