7th Post/Life Drawing

Now that we have a more numerous amount of muscles on our manikens, I am starting to view the bumps and curves of the body as grouped muscles and not just random body curves.  Drawing or sketching people in my sketchbook has become much improved since the beginning of this class and especially now that I am using muscles as part of the skeletal structure of the persons and figures that I sketch/draw.  Although my sketches have no real skeletal structure they still hold the general shape of a figure in the medium of scribbled pen and ink.  I have only use charcoal in my sketchbook two, maybe three times.  A pen is much more convenient to carry around with my six by four sketchpad.  If I carry around charcoal with me I would end up breaking the charcoal more than using it to draw.  On the drawings I have worked on in class I have started using a white eraser rather than my kneaded eraser.  I guess one could say that the kneaded eraser isn’t a needed (kneaded) eraser at all.  But seriously now.  The white eraser I use works great for lightening or even highlighting a few details on my drawing.  The only problem I have is that there is little annoying pieces of residue on my drawing and when I try to wipe them off I more than likely end up smidging or smudging my drawing.   This is not a huge problem but more of a pet peeve of drawing tools.  My drawings still carry this cartoonish and not life-like feel, which is something I’m striving to achieve in my artwork.  

6th Post/Life Drawing

Feet, Feet, Feet!  Learning how to draw feet is similar to trying to draw a space ship, in my opinion.  Also, feet are a very strange and awkward shape, in comparison with the flow of the rest of the body.  Feet seem to be bulgy or stretched and stubby yet bony.  I think that drawing the plains of the foot has really helped me capture the general shape of the foot and that following each bone down to the tip of the toe has helped give the foot a realistic feeling, rather than having ‘sausage toes.’  I think that knowing where the bones are, knowing the shape of the bones, and knowing the size of the bones is becoming more critical and visible now that we are drawing feet.  It’s much easier to understand how to draw a foot once you understand which bones go where and which bones do what.  When I draw I have been ‘grouping’ the smaller four toes together and leaving the big toe on it’s own.  I think that by doing this I have given a more realistic sense to the foot because they do have different muscles and they also have that unordinary gap between the small toes and the big toe.  There is a definite space in-between the two.  I think I will be bringing an eraser to class from now on because so far this semester I have only carried my kneaded eraser along to class.  The kneaded eraser has always proved useful in my past drawing classes but I think that a white eraser will be much more beneficial for what needs to be done in my drawings.  I think that in the long run in will be a much easier and rewarding tool to my drawings.

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