Review [03/17/11]

2 minute

For the second day this week (only two class periods in a week, so all days this week), a model was a no show and another model had to be contacted after class has started and had to wait for that one to show.

I only had time to do the ten 2 minute drawings and left just as she was starting the 20 minute. I hope from now on, we'll have models who will show up.

I know things come up, but please be professional about it, like call if you are not going to show. We waited for the first one, thinking that she was late, but ended up calling someone else assuming she was a no show. It turns out she was a no-show.

This person modeled for us before. Second time for this one.

Review [03/15/11]

2 minute



The model was late and ended up not showing up today, so a student took on a role after 30 minutes into class. Several people left, which is somewhat good since the class was packed.

Andrei planned to drop in to class today and it was an interesting day for him to come. The model didn't show [1st time this semester] and the class was unexpectedly full. I talked more today than all the classes attended combined so far. We drew a skeleton before the student, who was also a professional model, decided to become the model.

20 minute

She was very easy to draw since her body seemed to be proportional and it made sense. It was like the ideal body with no flaws. Those types of bodies are easy to draw compared to others that are out of proportion.

Those are the ones that are challenging, because it questions the mind about the proportions that we really see and the ones that we drew.







50 minute
I didn't need the full hour to do this drawing. When I think the drawing is done, its done. I pretty much finished within the first 20 minutes and the second 20 minutes were the finishing touches, which made the drawing more realistic. For the last ten minutes, I was just making things darker and stopped at the last ten minutes to look around at other people's drawings.


Medium: Charcoal Pencil - 4B

Anatomy [03/10/11]

2 minute

This is another female model but this time with big thighs and smaller mid section. I don't understand why Gordon isn't picking models with different variations in size, gender and race, but rather similar features. I'd like to draw different types of people and not another Caucasian woman. I'm feeling less guilty about not tipping as time goes on especially since the variations seems very limiting.

5 minute

Someone suggested that we do 5 minute poses, which seemed like a bad idea at first, but I realized that if I can't finish the whole body, then I would have to emphasis different segments of the body and then add detail to them.

I find people rushing to draw the whole body, but I just took my time on one or two parts of the body, which reduced the pressure and increased my concentration. It turned out to be a good idea since we are learning about anatomy. Gordon showed my work to the class! This is the 3rd time? or 4th? I'm thinking back and it seems like its the 4th. Yes, 4.



20 minute

Her thighs were huge at my angle and it looked awkward, but it looks okay now online.

Afternoon

Anatomy [03/08/11]

2 minute



20 minute

This class was one hour lecture with the last two hours drawing the model.

The lecture was about anatomy and it was very helpful, although I did feel extremely sleepy during the first part of the lecture. Gordon introduced the bones, then the muscles that control the bones and movement in each part of the body.

Something that I learned was that muscles are attached to opposite sides of different bones. Obviously, if muscles are attached to the same bone, it wouldn't do anything.

This model was a guy, our second one of the semester. He is much younger than the first male model, but just as tall and Caucasian.

40 minute

Half way through the 40 minute session, Gordon asked if he could show my work to everyone. [Second time!! But nobody is counting.] Of course I was more than happy to! But I didn't show it as enthusiastic on the outside as I was inside. The lady, who said that I should stay home since I had a really bad cold, said that she really liked mine and it was really good. As soon as Gordon came back around to return my board, they were talking amongst each other saying how they really liked it...

Another classmate came to me and told me personally that she thought it was good and I said thank you. It really means a lot to me for people to comment nicely on it. Thank you.

My quietness in class shouldn't prevent me from voicing my opinions about other people's work.

Box Method

I'm going to incorporate the box method technique, along with perspective drawing to sketch out the human form from experience and imagination.

This is definitely going to help me improve my memory in drawing as well as reinforce figure drawing positions learned in class.

Hands

These are my hands