Skull!

We started drawing the skull this week! I think the skull is not as simple as it first appears to be. It is very easy to end up with a drawing that looks a little too cartoon like. I shied away from filling in the eye sockets with black in order to not give my skull that flat look. I wanted to put in contour lines but was a bit unsure what they should be doing. I also tried to not make the eye sockets to large, but I failed with my first try =). It is strange that even when you think you know what your doing your sub-conscious can still take over and trick you! I ended up having to reduce the size of my eyes twice and I also had to make my skull over all size larger and longer with all three drawings. I wanted to make it more round than it actually is. It was difficult to draw but very helpful at the same time. 

3/4 Front

Profile

3/4 Back

Arms and Hands

This week was fun and challenging! I enjoyed the hand drawings we did and it was interesting to explore the different challenges that come up with drawing a skeleton hand and a hand with flesh and muscle. I thought drawing the skeleton hand was easier to accomplish then the hand of the model. With the hand of the model you have to visualize not only where the bones are but what the muscles are doing underneath the skin. I am not saying either one was easy for me, just that the skeletel hand was simpler to understand  =).
Once you understand where the arm muscles are located it is easier to draw them in. They flow together nicely and it is not hard to visualize them and fit them into each other. That being said I still have a ways to go with my work, but things are slowly coming along. I think my biggest weakness is still my contour lines! I think next time in class I will force my self to put a lot of them in. I tend to shy away form them because I cant quite get them to look as they should ha. UGH!

Here are my drawing for the week!

Model Hand

Skeletal Hand

Arm Work

Arm Work

Nice bicepes !

This week was all about the arms. I thought it was interesting to know how things connect up by the shoulder and down to the elbow. Also how the pinky finger and thumb connect up into the elbo area.
Some people my find the lectures in class to be long but I really enjoy them and find it helpful to sit and listen before we get to drawing. It helps me to visualize what I am about to draw.
This week end I got all caught up with my manikin, I will admit I was behind a few muscles! I used the visible body site to help me get through a lot of them. I cant say enough how helpful I think that site is. The book is nice but its hard to figure out which muscles go over and which ones go under. The visible body clears up any uncertainty there. I thought it was cool to see all the muscles in the arm and hands. There is a lot more then I thought there was. That has been true threw out the whole semester for me, bit still! Hope every one had a good weekend! Can you believe the semester is almost over, it went so fast...


Here are a few pics of my manikin ( sorry about the bad quality!)

Ok this is just for fun! It is the year of the rabbit for the Chinses horiscope! That is my Chinese animal for my birthday so I thought I would post this fun little raabbit! Hover over him and he changes!

Cuteki love eCards

One day week

Becuase of advisment day we only have one class this week, which is really unfortunate becuase I feel like I could use some drawing time! Last week I felt off with my drawings. I was having a hard time with some proportions and things where not looking right. I guess some times your hand just does not want to listen to your brain. =) One good thing is this gives me some extra time to work on my skelliton. I have some work to do on the back still. It is coming along fairly well though. I think by the end of the semester I will feel satisfied with it.
Although I have a way to go with anatomy I already feel like this class is helping me understand how muscles structure works on physical forms. At least it gets me thinking about it when I start a drawing of anything now. I think once I rap my head around shoulders and legs my drawings will start coming out more true to form.


Drawing of Hawk for printmaking: