So far in Life Drawing i have learned more about the ribs. I have also learned a bunch about the proportion of the body with the box method that we just learned. I now also know where the "spine line" on the front is, which is very helpful when the model faces forward. Some things that i have found helpful is blind contour, contour line drawings, and the quick rib , hip and spine drawings. The blind contour makes you more aware of what you are drawing. Contour line drawings have helped me look more closely at plane changes and can help un-flatten a drawing. The rib, hip, and spine drawings i think do really help but i dont think we need to do soooooo many of them. Some of my weaknesses are that i cant do one thing over and over and over....and over again. It brings back bad memories of Drawing 1 where we only drew chairs and it was horrible. I also have problems making a drawing that took me 30 seconds suddenly take 2-5 minutes. Early in the semester when we did continuous line drawings i did WAY to many lines but i have been working on that and i think it has been a successful journey. Some of my strengths are that i think i can see small details and plane changes well enough.
i just want to learn how to draw people. Right now you could tell me to draw a rib cage connected to a hip shaped thing and boom i could do it. But to actually draw a real person or a photograph i dont think i could. I dont think this class will really get into faces, but that is what i want to learn to draw. my faces are horrible and i can only to half a face i cant connect the two halves together and make it look good. Life drawing learning hasn't really flowed on to other classes. But in drawing 1 we did line drawings and negative space drawings and that kind of reminds me of life drawing.
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