In order Left to Right: Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3
In order from Left to Right: Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6
Overall, I do a pretty good job of including the whole figure on the page. In a few gesture drawings that weren't pictured, I did have to cut off parts. Figure 4 above doesn't include the whole figure because we were focusing on the pelvis with that drawing. Figure 1 is one of my very first drawings, before we covered the long contour (starting in Figure 2), so it's the only one which doesn't really use anatomical landmarks. Figure 6 uses cross contour lines as well as the landmarks. Line variation is something I'm working really hard to improve. I like to outline objects and that makes my drawings start to look flat. I think I started to get better at this in Figure 6. Figure 4 seems to look more like an illustration, but I liked it so I included it. While drawing, I notice that I tend to match the angle of my hips to the model, or at least get close. I also need to work on exaggerating the angles so it looks more believable.
Long Drawings
In order from Left to Right: Figure 7, Figure 8, Figure 9
I feel that Figure 7 is strong because of how hard I tried to get the proportions correct. I also liked that I added a little shading. I included Figure 8 because of the muscles on the back--I like how they turned out. I also think I did well with line variation. Figure 9 is my favorite drawing that I've done so far. The proportion is slightly off, but I tried to get the muscles that I could remember in as well as the general shapes of those we hadn't learned yet.
Mannequin
From Left to Right: Figure 10, Figure 11, Figure 12, Figure 13
I think the strongest feature of Figure 10 is the abs, and I think I could improve the tendon that runs down the middle. The strongest of Figure 11 is the twist in the neck muscles, but I feel the proportions could be better for the back muscles. In Figure 12, the thigh muscles could be thinner to fit together better, but I like how the sartorius turned out. In Figure 13, I feel that I did the glutes well and that the muscles around the back of the knee could be improved.
The most interesting post I've found so far is this one by Matt from my group. I've used illustrator only a small amount and I find it really challenging. I've basically only been able to accomplish lines and text so far.
It's nice to see what I've been doing in class all in one spot. I find the general layout and amount of text displayed on a blog frustrating. I'm a web design student, and blogs seem to go against most of what I've learned about creating a good web page. I can't really show it to a future employer because while I did create the work, he or she would also be looking at the site itself, and I need to create a real website. I would like to post about website aesthetics, suggested amount of content, and other things like that. If I could give an assignment to the class, it would be to tell a little about themselves.
My image quality is the best I can get, while not owning a digital camera and not always having my roommate available to use hers. The quality of my writing, I think, is pretty good. I probably don't always spell check as much as I should, though. Due to lack of time, I haven't really been commenting on my other group members blogs, and they haven't been commenting on mine. I haven't replied to the comment I got. We did talk a bit in class during the maniken building times, which was helpful. I haven't been able to blog about non-class related subjects. As a professional artist, the blog doesn't represent me well because I'm just learning figure drawing. Looking at the work, someone would probably think I'm not a good artist because the drawings aren't that great.
2 comments:
Michelle,
I think you've shown good progress in your gesture drawings from the beginning of the semester till now, especially learning the rib cage and pevlis. As we approach the end of the semester we will be focusing on long poses rather than gestures, but when we do get to gesture drawings, continue what you're doing and try to add even more fluidity to the drawings by making big movements with your shoulder as you draw and keeping the drawing tool in contact with the paper the whole time of the pose. This kind of fluidity would take these gesture drawings to the next level of good draftsmanship.
I agree with you that figure 9 is the best long drawing. It is the most successful in terms of proportion, line variation, and exaggeration of the angles of the figure. As we work on the final long drawings of the semester, work hard at using negative spaces and measuring lines to help with proportion issues and save time at the end of poses to refine your line quality as we worked on last week.
We will be spending at least one more day in class on the maniken, so make sure to get me to take one good, last look at yours before you hand it in for finals. It looks like it needs some refining--the biceps femoris tendon needs to come down to the fibula some more, the peroneus tertius made smaller/thinner, the vastus lateralis bigger so it comes all the way back to where the gluteus maximus inserts to the femur and the biceps femoris wraps around a bit on the lateral thigh. We don't want to see any femur at the hip.
The sartorius needs to cut behind the knee slightly as it comes down--check the front cover of volume 4 of your atlases. There's a good photo of the thigh muscles on it. The IT band can be thinned down.
I like Matt's Puma plane, too.
Is there any way the blog could serve as a place to get things ready for a website, in terms of taking good photos to post (of your maniken, for example, that you will not always have in your possession to shoot in the future)?
Is it too much of a pain to check out a camera from the library or from the visual resources center in the art building?
Thanks for these comments; I'm just beginning this work on seeing if blogs make realistic educational tools in a studio course. Lots of things to figure out!
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