The final blog, my oh my! I can't believe this semester is over, it went by so fast. Over the course of the semester, I feel I have grown and gotten better at life drawing. In my midterm blog post I wrote about how I think my greatest strength is my willingness to learn, I still believe that is true. I think I have learned a lot during this last half of the semester. I feel that with every drawing, it becomes easier to understand the human form and it doesn't take as long from me to draw the body either. I think my shell drawings show the greatest improvement. If you compare my first shell drawing to my last, there is a big difference. I wanted to have more fun with this last shell drawing, to step back more and really observe what I was drawing. The difference in my shells shows that I have to ability to grow, take what I have learned and then apply it, it just takes some time.
I have learned so much more about the human body since mid-semester but especially on how to draw parts of the body such as the hands, feet and skull. I think learning those details helped make the body seem more complete and helped me look at the body as a whole. I think that has been one of my problems, I've seen all of my work in life drawing as incomplete but now that I somewhat understand how to draw the hands, feet and head everything seems to be more complete.
I will use this information next semester when I student teach and later in life when I'm an art teacher myself. Knowing how to draw people and the anatomy of the body will be helpful; everything and anything I know will only help me and make me a more confident teacher. Being able to explain how the human body is drawn and using correct terminology will be very beneficial. It will help the students respect me because I have knowledge and the information that they will need to learn to become artists.
Below is a link to the images for our final:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44068237@N04/sets/72157623015364842/
Peace and Blessings!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Loooong Pose
This Tuesday, was our last class period and my last class EVER as an undergraduate!! I am very excited to be done with classes and I am ready to start student teaching! So, during class, we did a drawing that was roughly 2 1/2 hours. In some aspects it felt super long but in other ways it didn't seem long enough. When I started drawing I had every intention of covering as much of the paper as possible but my drawing kept getting smaller and smaller. It was hard to get the details of the feet, hands and the face. I think it is easier for me to understand the form of the body but I still make small mistakes that add up. I still have trouble figuring out how to foreshorten the rib cage, that is something tricky.
I have started my final shell drawing and I must say I am trying harder this time and working on it more. I think I wasn't as successful on my other shells because I over thought the idea of cross contour and just thought of it as a grid. I think that's where I went wrong. With this shell drawing I am slowing down and stopping drawing when I get annoyed; I want to enjoy drawing the shell and I think I would just power through not liking what I was creating. I am also treating the cross contour more as a guideline and trying to think of the lines as cross hatching as well. Stepping back every few minutes help too; I would stare at the paper for too long too close.
Below is the final drawing from our long pose on Tuesday.
I have started my final shell drawing and I must say I am trying harder this time and working on it more. I think I wasn't as successful on my other shells because I over thought the idea of cross contour and just thought of it as a grid. I think that's where I went wrong. With this shell drawing I am slowing down and stopping drawing when I get annoyed; I want to enjoy drawing the shell and I think I would just power through not liking what I was creating. I am also treating the cross contour more as a guideline and trying to think of the lines as cross hatching as well. Stepping back every few minutes help too; I would stare at the paper for too long too close.
Below is the final drawing from our long pose on Tuesday.
Those Forgotten Feet
I forgot to blog about when we drew feet a few weeks back so I thought I would take some time and write about the experience of feet.
We first started out by learning some of the bones of the feet. For me i seemed to know or remember the bones of the feet/hand better. Maybe because of the anatomy class I took in high school we went over the tarsals and carpals quite a few times. I am one of those people that remembers either useless facts or something that has been told to me over and over again.
The feet were interesting to draw to say the least. I had a tricky time making the feet not look like one fat, flat object. There seems to be some trouble when trying to draw the bottom of the feet as well as trying to draw the top, to separate the two. Trying to make feet look like there is a roundness to them is a puzzle to me. I had to draw and redraw them over and over.
Below are some of the drawings that I did in class of feet. Exciting, I know!
Also, on a side note, here are some images from my senior show! Hope you enjoy!
This next photo is my friends helping me take down my show and we decided to have a photo shoot!
We first started out by learning some of the bones of the feet. For me i seemed to know or remember the bones of the feet/hand better. Maybe because of the anatomy class I took in high school we went over the tarsals and carpals quite a few times. I am one of those people that remembers either useless facts or something that has been told to me over and over again.
The feet were interesting to draw to say the least. I had a tricky time making the feet not look like one fat, flat object. There seems to be some trouble when trying to draw the bottom of the feet as well as trying to draw the top, to separate the two. Trying to make feet look like there is a roundness to them is a puzzle to me. I had to draw and redraw them over and over.
Below are some of the drawings that I did in class of feet. Exciting, I know!
Also, on a side note, here are some images from my senior show! Hope you enjoy!
This next photo is my friends helping me take down my show and we decided to have a photo shoot!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Attempting Hands and Shells
Before this last week it had been a while since I had drawn anything. I had missed the Tuesday before Thanksgiving because of a painting field trip so it's been about 2 weeks so I was feeling a little rusty.
In class on Tuesday, we started out discussing the face. We talked about the definitions for parts of the face. It was also interesting to learn about the different planes the face has and how to draw them successfully. It was hard to think of the nose having a top, bottom and side planes but it makes sense now that I think about it but I found it difficult to draw; to create space and structure for the nose as well as other facial parts was a challenge. When drawing faces, I thought it was hard to get the eyes to sit back and not seen like they were floating in front of the head. Another thing that was difficult to do was being drawn. It was weird to have someone drawing you and just having to sit and wait.
We also had a critique about our shells since some of us missed the critique on Tuesday, November 24 because of the painting field trip. I still am struggling with the cross contour shell drawing. I think I am getting better though. I think my problem is that I am over thinking things and not enjoying drawing the shell. This last time that we draw the shell, I am going to try just drawing the shell and not over analyzing it.
In class on Thursday, we started drawing hands, using the same information that we got from the feet lecture. I think that drawing the hands was easier than drawing the face but again problems arouse. I think that problem was being able to get the hand drawings to look like they had mass. It was hard to draw the poses of the hands when they were foreshortening or bent.
Below are some images of some hands and then my last shell drawing.
In class on Tuesday, we started out discussing the face. We talked about the definitions for parts of the face. It was also interesting to learn about the different planes the face has and how to draw them successfully. It was hard to think of the nose having a top, bottom and side planes but it makes sense now that I think about it but I found it difficult to draw; to create space and structure for the nose as well as other facial parts was a challenge. When drawing faces, I thought it was hard to get the eyes to sit back and not seen like they were floating in front of the head. Another thing that was difficult to do was being drawn. It was weird to have someone drawing you and just having to sit and wait.
We also had a critique about our shells since some of us missed the critique on Tuesday, November 24 because of the painting field trip. I still am struggling with the cross contour shell drawing. I think I am getting better though. I think my problem is that I am over thinking things and not enjoying drawing the shell. This last time that we draw the shell, I am going to try just drawing the shell and not over analyzing it.
In class on Thursday, we started drawing hands, using the same information that we got from the feet lecture. I think that drawing the hands was easier than drawing the face but again problems arouse. I think that problem was being able to get the hand drawings to look like they had mass. It was hard to draw the poses of the hands when they were foreshortening or bent.
Below are some images of some hands and then my last shell drawing.
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