Self Portrait

Gesture Drawings

Skull

Long Poses

Best Drawings

This semester I had Life Drawing 2 with was just a review of what I had learned in Life Drawing one. I had to to take it cause it was an independent study and that was the only time the my teacher Amy had for me. I missed the first half of the class because art history crossed over but I just came in on Mondays and Tuesdays to make up for lost time. It was strange getting to choose how long you wanted a pose to go for. I always did a few quick gesture drawings then got right into the long poses unless the other student wanted something different, but most of the time we were in agreement.
The assignments that Amy gave me or I gave my self were first looking at Old Masters sketches the finding the muscles and highlight those sections and label them as well. In each pose I had to drawing the same muscles in a different way. Some time it would have to be foreshortened and other times it would have to be stretched out depending on your view. Then I moved on to Drawing bones. The big thing I learned there was that the arm and leg bones had plains on them that rapped around the surface to make the shape. These flat plains are were the bone connected to the muscles. If you drew these plains and connected them, they would make of the right shape of the bone. The final thing I learned it you can't away draw what is there. You have to really look at what is there but the take certain liberties to emblesh something so the viewer knows that that bone is suppose to be in front.

Shoulder Blade 2

Shoulder Blade 1

Pelvis Drawing 2

Pelvis Drawing 1

Hand Drawing 2

Hand Drawing 1

Lower Arm

Upper Arm

Bone Drawing 1

Bone Drawing 2

Bone Drawing 3

Muscle Drawing 5

Muscle Drawing 4

Muscle Drawing 3

Muscle Drawing 2

Muscle Drawing 1

Michelangelo, Study of seated figure for the Battle of Cascina
Drawing in Chalk and Pen, 1542
Book: Michelangelo= The Complete Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture
Author: William E. Wallace
Page 139

Michelangel0, Crucifixion of Christ, Black Chalk Drawing, 1530
Book: Michelangelo= The Complete Sculpture, Painting,and Architecture
Author: William E. Wallace
Page 197

Andrea Mantegna, Perspective Study of a Male Figure
Book: Pageant of the Renaissance
Author: Diane Kelder
Page: 102

Luca Signorelle, Study of Two Men in Combat
Book: Pageant of the Renaissance
Author: Diane Kelder
Page 79

What I have learned in Life Drawing 1

I have learned a lot since I started taking life drawing. I learned that each part of the human body has its own shape. I have learned that I have to look for what is the there, not what it think is there. For example, the human back does not go straight up and down. It has curves that start at the neck and then go in then get to the upper back and go out until you get to the bottom of the shoulder blades. Then the back turns in again at the lower back and curves in and out at he the bottom as you can see on the bottom left picture. I have also learned that when drawing the body, it is good to start with a stick figure skeleton of the body in which to get the length of the body right and the angles right where the joints bend. After that you can start putting on volume such as the chest and and muscles of the arms and legs. Our latest assignment was that we had to make 30 second drawing of people out in public acting naturally. I went went to the Acoustic Cafe to draw people and found that people don't stay still for 30 seconds at a time. They usually move every 10 or 15 seconds weather it be shifting there weight, moving there hands, turning their heads or whole bodies. And I learned that people hold their bodies differently then then people around them. Every has their own pose that is suited to them. It is not like when a model comes in to class and it is the same pose for 3o seconds or minutes and it does not matter the person because the are doing a standard pose. That just names a few of the things I have learned so far and this is just the beginning.

Onion

This was the last project in 3-D Design. We had to abstract a vegetable. This was my first attempt at abstraction and I chose an onion as my veggie. It was a lot harder then I thought it was going to be. It is acrylic on paper and took between 4 and 6 hours to make. I spent a lot of time looking at the layers and cross sections of it and that is where the subject matter came from. 

For Ground

This was a Drawing 2 project. You had to find a spot in you living space and draw 3 pictures. Each one would focus on a different point in space, for ground, middle ground, and back ground. This on is the for ground. It is looking form my room through a corner in the kitchen to the dinning room. It is one of my favorite drawings

Defiant

This was a piece in 2-D Design where we had to use ink and pen as our material and word for all the shading. It to two week to make, working about 4 hours a day. In the end I was very happy with it. It is the best self portrait I thing I have every made.

Me as an Artist

I am a super senior and I am in Life Drawing 2. I am hoping to improve my skills when it comes to drawing the human body. I would like to drawing humans better since my concentration in Studio Art is drawing. It hope to become quick and efficient when making my human drawings.

My other classes the semester are Painting 3, Italian Renaissance History, and Ceramics 1. I ahve never been good on the wheel but I am hoping I will learn to be good at that. I find Italian Renaissance a very interesting class, and painting I am working form memories of my farm boy childhood