Drawing the Human Form From Inside Out

I think the goals of todays exercise were to get us to look at the human form as a series of general shapes and less in the hyper-detailed way feel stressed to do. We also heard Ms. Roberts say "draw what you see not what you think is there" so this, like most drop everything and draw exercises, was to reinforce that concept. Also the focus on proportion (one of the principles of design) has been a major topic this week and this class was to drum it harder into our heads. Although I do not particularly like the drawings I created I think I achieved creating the general shape and image of people who are more or less proportionate. For me it was more interesting to see how other people aproached drawing the same subject and how although none were better or worse they were all different. A major challenge I faced, besides my easel breaking then falling on my head and giving a splinter, was drawing from the inside out. Constantly I had the urge to draw something else first, but I think this really made keeping things in proportion easier than if I had started with the head.

Shades of Grey

The goal of todays exercise was to carve out forms from our paper by using shading and erasers as our pencil. By doing this we were forced to take shading into account to make our drawings look realistic. Whereas we might not think to do this, or to shade to this extreme if we were left to our own devices, but here were depended on the shading of each object to bring it to life.

I think my drawing came out okay, but I am always very critical of my own work. I think you could see each object. If I had started out my drawing by making the background all around darker I think each thing would have stood out more, whereas right now my drawing feels very....safe.

What is it the sack?

Today the goals set by Ms Roberts:

-go from general to specific

-move quickly

-use shadowing and light to make the bags come alive

My goals for my self:

-Make something that actually might possibly look something like what I was actually trying to draw

The goals I actually achieved:

umm....

well I think I went from general to specific okay but I have always been one to draw slow. I think I focused to much on the detail and frustration and less on the image I was creating. As far as it goes for achieving the goal I set for my self well... look at the picture

The Changing Still Life

This insane goal felt like alice in wonderland we had to run as fast as we could to stay exactly where we were. Literally we had to erase non stop and draw non stop. We had no time to mourn over the loss of a perfectly drawn cup it was just go. go. go. It all felt a little like the race we run in high school. We have to keep up with the current events and let go of last years jokes and when we stopped to take a breath all we had was a blur. Its hard to do, but it was an adrenaline rush. To tell the truth I did not hate the final product as much as I thought I might. I enjoyed it, but might not want to have to do it all again. Sorta like high school