Week 9

Tuesday: I am starting to get a hang of the manikens and I think the muscles are getting easier and easier for me to visualize. One that we added that i think is very easy to see are the Deltoids. Some in the back i feel are harder to pick out in real life, but the shoulder has alot of curves and dimension going on around the shoulder bone.

Thursday: Lot of drawing in this week! 6 full hours! Still mainly working on the shoulder girdle. I noticed a significant amount of difference in the muscles from female to male models, definitely easier to see on a male.  I enjoy drawing the shoulder, I think I am losing sight of the egg though and I find myself just starting to draw the shoulders and then realizing i should add the egg in, such as in my second gesture drawing shown, i went right for the shoulder blades and i had to add the egg in toward the end and it looks too low in proportion to the body.  In my first gesture drawing below, even though it is only a 30 second drawing, I really like how you can see all the movement through the spine and the hips and the legs.  The bottom two are longer drawings.  I tried to focus mainly on contour lines in the last one because the armpit had so much depth going on.  I feel like the drawing looks kind of weird because i was smack dab on the side of him.

We learned a little bit about the arm today.  The elbow is located between the rib cage and the hips.  I think the arms have a lot more dimension than what we realize because people automatically think of them as two super long straight parts of the body, but theres actually a lot going on.