Finale

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Its finally upon us. The end of the semester. Another year gone, I can't believe it. This semester has been great, not just including this class but some of my other classes. I'm happy to say that I have some new stuff to add to my portfolio after this semester. I had a really good Graphic Design Project that I'm planning on taking further on my own. Also, this class has greatly improved my skills of drawing the human form. I'm already signed up for the next class in the fall. I'm making it a goal to draw a lot more this summer, as long as work doesn't consume my entire being and giving me 60+ hours of work.

In the beginning of the semester I had little knowledge on few body parts of the human form with little understand of how each act and function together to create the human form. After this class I'm well aware of the unique body parts. I understand how to start of drawing the human form by figuring out the mid line or spine's placement. From there its using other landmarks to begin drawing the rest. One thing I need to improve on is controlling how hard I draw, I draw with the lights tools and they still draw dark when I'm trying to erase. But that is something I'll get better at over time. Another thing I'll get better overtime is gesture drawings. The idea of gesture drawings angers me because, its forcing art. I don't like to be rushed when their is no need, so you may find some of my gestures not good because lets face it I don't work well while working fast. She told use about 3/4 into the semester how she actually wanted us to draw gestures which irritated me because I've been doing it one way with out hearing complaints that now I suddenly have to adapt this new style. I tried it her way and they turned out like shit. I'm not a speed drawer yet, and hopefully I get better at it, but I promise you its not something I plan on doing over the summer, I'd much rather do long drawings.

Overall the semester was great, and I cannot wait till the next class. Oh and before I forget, the self portrait project I originally was excited for because I wanted to pump something good out, but after doing it with a MIRROR, I'll never draw from a mirror again because it constricts my drawing ability while I sit there not moving. I'll just go from a photo, which I believe shouldn't be frowned upon. But here is my self-portrait even though its silly looking.

12th

Well its the last week before we start finals. I learned on Monday however that I have mono. I really didn't think much of this at first, like oh all I'll do is sleep. I was really wrong. I miss almost an entire week of classes because of it. Worst part is that mono has now made me behind on everything! Luckily for me, all my Professors were really understanding. So If this blog post seems to be missing on general weekly updates its because I've spent most of the week sleeping and coughing. I did make it to one of the Life Drawing classes this week. There we finished up our manakins and started to apply what we learned from last week onto the face. I did a long post face of the drawing and I've got to say, I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. Here it is!

11th

I really enjoyed drawing and learning about the skull and face structures. This week we learned about how to draw the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. I really love how she takes basic shapes and eventually turns them into the part of the body we are covering. Like the eye for example is sphere obviously, but then adding this distinct areas that can change based on the person like above and below the eye that make each person unique. I found it interesting that 1/3 of our eye is seen on the side of our head, I mean I guess I never really realized that until she said it then i started looking around. That was a great thing to know when drawing the face, because it will add the sense of the figure's 3-dimensionally.

The nose is another part of the face I found really interesting to learn. In genreal noses are tough, and learning the basic forms to start out with really excelled how well I could draw noses. I mean in all my face drawings, the nose is the first thing I start with because it connects to the rest of the face. ITs the center point of the face. Working from there made it easier to work my way back out of the face without running into to much disproportional issues. Next after the nose comes the mouth. She covered the basic stuff like, top lip is always above draw the middle lip line and not the others because it makes them look silly. yatta yatta, big bang boom!

Ears were really interesting to learn! They are soo weird in genreal I was really unsure how to draw them. But If you draw certain parts individually then combine them all together it turns out great! Now after this week of drawing facial features I can only imagine we will be drawing faces next week. Here are some eyes and nose drawings I did in class.

10th

I'm sorry for all the late post. I've kind of been dealing with a lot, you know finals, plus not feeling to well but here was what happened the next week. We learned the skull! I loved learning about the skull. It was like taking an anatomy class, this entire semester! No but thats not the best part, I loved how my 3 skull drawings turned out. They will defiantly be in my Final Portfolio work for this class and in my web portfolio.

In other class related news, the two German Graphic Designers that joined my GDII critique really liked my design and idea. They loved that I thought beyond the 2d world of paper and was thinking about how my logo would work in the digital world.

Here is my favorite skull drawing I did. Next week we will start to learn about the face!

9th

Well, Last week we covered the Hands. Finally! I really liked how she taught them. Pretty much treat each bone in the form, not just make the hand as you think it is. You need to take in everything that makes it. My Hand drawings were some of my best work I've made lately. Usually hands are tough to draw. Thursday was the same thing pretty much, drawing hands and the bone hand. Not much else happened. Here is some pics of my hands.