body language

This is my first post since midterm. I have been horribly neglecting my blogging responsibilities, hopefully I will remind myself to do this weekly. Honestly, and this is not excuse, but with my senior show right around the corner I have been ignoring all of my classes and just concentrating on painting. I have been trying to balance all my classes better for the second half of the semester. Below I have added the image of the postcard for my senior show! I am doing my show with two fellow art educators: Tracy Considine and Lance Schott. Our show is up from November 30 to December 4. Woot!



The last couple of weeks we have been working on the drawing the body and redoing the muscles. I have been really trying hard to get the muscles right but I think my problem was i was only looking at a few of the pictures in the book, not all of the images, which show how much muscle should be showing and the thickness of the muscles. It helped me immensely when i would google the names of the muscles and then look at the muscle and the surrounding ones, then I could see how the muscles worked together. I must admit, even though I think I am understanding how to create the muscles better, I still am not the greatest at it.

In class we have begun working on the feet, looking at the bone structure and the muscles on the foot. I think the foot is really hard to draw, it is a task to make the foot look 3-Dimensional, not just flat and fat. Doing the cross contour helps create the idea of arches that the foot has but cross contour is hard too.
Maybe I should just say that EVERYTHING about Life Drawing is hard and I struggle a lot in the class. There I said it. Let's put it behind us and work through it.

Speaking of using cross contour on the foot, we had another assignment to draw a shell using cross contour. This time drawing the shell went smoother but I still don't think I am using cross contours correctly. I need to be more organic when drawing the contours and less mechanical. Being more fluid with my lines will help my drawings be more effective and will help with making the shell look more 3-D.

So below are two images. The first is my shell and the second is a one hour drawing the I did in class.