Life Drawing I: Week Fourteen: Final Portfolio

PHOTOBUCKET ALBUM:
Term 2

FINAL REFLECTION
Wow, I just cant believe the semester is done already! It absolutely flew by! I learned a ton this semester in Lifedrawing. Coming into life drawing Im sure a lot of us thought, yea Im not the greatest at drawing the human figure, but I can do it fairly successfully. I being one of them, definitely got a bit of a shock when I was set in front of a nude model and asked to draw her/him. I learned very quickly the areas that I needed to improve upon and what I was doing incorrectly with my human form.

On the last day of class we had a model come in and we were able to two final long drawings. I was really excited to be able to finally put all my knowledge together and draw the entire human form without questioning areas of the body. I unfortunately found out very quickly that I was very out of practice with the entirety of the body. Since we had been concentrating more recently on the hands, feet, and facial features, along with missing a couple days of class, we really hadnt done a whole lot of model drawing. This really showed me that especially with the human body, practice and constant drawing is essential for me to be able to retain and successfully draw various portions of the body.

Overall I really enjoyed doing the head and facial features especially the eyes! I have always attempted to draw the human eyes, but they just never seemed to turn out right or look real. By listening to Amy's lectures and by closely analyzing the more specific areas and planes of the eyes I feel that I am much more able to draw a realistic human eye.

As far as my final shell goes, I was actually surprised with how happy I am with it. Throughout the semester my contour drawings seem to go on a roller coaster ride, one being good and the next being super flat. I feel that with this last shell drawing I was able to capture a lot of angles and pretty successfully got it to look both 3D and organic. With my last large shell drawing the biggest thing that I felt I needed to work on was making my shell look organic. By paying attention to closer details and by drawing more slowly I was able to capture more of my shells bumps, and grooves. I was nervous about going in with the wash on my shell. I have never worked with an ink wash before, but overall for my first time I am pretty happy with how it turned out!

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!

Life Drawing I: Week Twelve: Reflection

No Class Held This Week.