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.