Feet, Chicago, Whirlwind...

So I will be blogging more! I hope you all can keep up with me. This past week has been crazy (I was in Chicago this past weekend in in St. Paul the next moving my boyfriend into his new apartment in the middle of a blizzard), and I am very frustrated with the snow… which has been kind of ruining my life and all of my plans right now but whatever. Onwards to life drawing, tonight I am going to be re-doing my thighs—recently Alisha and I acquired access to Visual Body, which is fascinating to me, and very helpful. Seeing the actual muscles from a non-Zoologik point of view (sorry zoologik, but your books confuse me—and I would like if they were in color, thanks love Julia.) What kind of fascinates me the most about this process is that we as artists are on the same website as students in med school, studying the same anatomy. I wish Visual Body was open to everyone, because honestly, it is an amazing website. My thighs though I did through visual body, which confused me a little because I was working alone and not with Alisha and Annie (as we usually do with our mannekins) Alisha will have to help me tonight, redo some of my thighs, and then it’s onwards to the legs. A small source of irritation (seems like this blog post is fairly negative, apologies to whoever reads this I am just ranting) there is no more clay left of my color in the life drawing room. I am a nitpicky person and really want to make Allen (my mannequin) look as real as possible. I don’t want him suddenly to have blue legs! Penco does not have any oil based clay, so I will have to find some SOMEWHERE in the art building. There’s rumors there’s some to spare in the ceramics lab.

Our lecture this past week was all to do with feet. I will be uploading some pictures up of K’s feet that we spent about an hour drawing. I have never ever given that much thought to feet before, as they are often forgotten in the human form I feel like, as well has hands, but they as essential to getting the figure to look remotely accurate. The bone structure of the feet was really fascinating. In my spare time, I google imaged some pictures of the foot structure. I have never thought in detail how intricate the bone work is within the foot. I have been interested in reflexology as a pseudoscience for awhile so this lecture paired nicely with my interest. Here are some lovely drawings of K’s feet as well as some charts from the internet incase anyone is interested like I am. (probably not, but there’s bound to be some freaks out there like me.)