Above is the link to my flickr account- more directly my "sets" of photo's needed. It wasn't easy trying to pick out the top 10 drawings of what I've done so far! It was great to look back on what I had drawn however, and compare it to how I'm drawing now. Not a drastic change, but its pretty evident that I started out knowing little about the shapes involved in the human body. The sketches weren't bad, but they didn't show any internal structure as to what was actually happening under the skin and muscles. Now that we've been making the clay manikens and drawing from a moded I think I'm beginning to understand how to draw the figure, from quick gesture drawings to 40 minute stills. In drawing number 2, the sketches look alright, but the egg shape inside the figures is a bit small and disproportionate as a set of lungs and ribcage. I've been getting better though, and I think drawing number 4 shows a better "egg" shape within the figure. I think I have learned a lot in this class so far, and not just drawing skills, but patience as well. Many times I just want to get it down right the first time, and keep working on one figure for as long as I can- but it's not always going to be that way. Gesture drawings are always a bit of a "tease" for me, because I want to keep drawing that pose until it looks like a convincing rendering. Gesture drawings are of course very fast and meant only to get the main body movement and shape of the figure with brief, simple lines. Its in drawing dozens and dozens of these brief figure shapes that you get better at recognizing the general movement of a figure. I also learned a lot about cross contours. I struggled a lot with finding the line direction in a body for the longer poses, and didnt really understand how to draw the lines around a curved surface. I think that last week I was finally beginning to understand it however, especially in drawing number 5. I realized that even though a body part( abdominals for example) may seem to be curving around a bone structure with a smooth half circle shape; what's actually happening is that the contour line is coming out towards you, then falling to the background. Its not easy to describe on a post, but I do understand it better now. I look forward for whats to come in the week's ahead!
