Midterm Portfolio

Since the beginning of Life Drawing, I feel as if I have learned so much. At the beginning I knew nothing about drawing the human body and about the muscles and bones of the body. Now I know so much more, though I feel that there is much, much more to learn and not enough time to do it. Knowing the basics have helped me with drawing and in my other art classes.
One of my strengths is that I am willing to learn, grow and absorb as much information as possible. Another strengths is my gesture drawings, I think I struggled in the beginning but have learned how to create an effective gesture drawing.
One of my weaknesses is that I am not a fast learner, so learning all of the names of the muscles is really tricky, even learning what lateral and posterior were was hard. I also think one of my weaknesses is getting the body to look like it has weight and isn't flat.
Something that I would like learn more about is being able to look at the human body and see the muscles and then draw them correctly. I think knowing where the muscles are will help improve my drawings and make me a better artist. Also, I would like to learn how to give the body shape, not seem as flat so it looks like it has weight to it. The third thing that I would like to learn is how to foreshorten the body correctly. I have always had problems drawing things that need to be foreshortened, so I think it would be extremely beneficial if I understood how to do this, for myself and my future students.

Below is the link to images of my mannequin, shell, gesture and thirty minute drawings.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44068237@N04/sets/72157622554545567/