Mid Semester Review

My Flickr Account, a link to my life drawing work

I can't even begin to describe how much I have learned in life drawing this semester about the human form but I will try. I knew this class would benefit me ever since Amy came into my Painting I class to do a short lecture about the skull, since we were working on portraiture. In that short time I remember realizing I had learned more about the human form, and thought more about it than perhaps I ever had. Figure drawing and painting has always been my favorite. Being able to capture flesh, movement, bone structure and having it translate is something I have always aspired to grasp. As the semester has progressed, I have chizzled away at the perceptions I had of human forms-which were merely outline drawing-and replaced those perceptions with solid evidence of what is there. I have replaced the outline with lungs, with a bone structure, with a pelvis & sacrem.

This element of science and partnering if with the live drawing aspect has helped me look at the human figure with a whole new set of eyes. Of course, I have had problems that I have been trying to correct. My first problem as I stated above was viewing the human body as an outline, drawing lightly I realized was incredibly important for translating that outline into 3D drawing. Something I still need to tackle is my contour line drawing, as it was something i worked incredibly hard on but felt it was something I was not happy with. I know in my next drawing I need to limit my lines, go in one direction, draw on an axis, and just like with the human form-LEARN TO SEE IT FROM a 3D PERSPECTIVE-not an outline!