Midterm Reflection

I missed a couple weeks on my blog... whoops.... I've been having kind of a weird semester with all the things that have been going on in my life... Anyway...

Here is the location of my gallery sets for my portfolio.

I have learned so much this quarter already! I can really tell that my drawing skills have improved and my attention to detail is higher. I'm rather proud of some of the drawings I've done of the model, they actually look pretty good and the contours look good too. My proportions are still a bit off but they are much better than they were when I started. I do know that I really really need to improve on my muscle maniken and my shell drawings. My muscles have more to be desired and I really need to spend more time working on it. I really just need to redo all of them.... I'll get to it eventually...



And my shell drawing... I just really need to focus on the shell as a whole and not each individual bump on it. When I first did my shell drawing I focused too much on all the tiny bumps on it and my drawing just came out as a bunch of scribbles. When I do my next one I need to look more at just the basic shapes and getting the base down first before I try to do more of the details.



I have a hard time trying to get these blogs done... I -do- understand the reasoning behind them, I just always forget to get them done on time and I feel really bad about it...my goal for the second part of the semester is to get a blog done every week so I don't fail the class...

Rib Cage fun!!! -.-

Last week we learned more about body structure and mostly the Rib Cage. I've gotten better at my cross-contour drawings, I've even gotten compliments from a couple of my peers. So that was mood-boosting. I honestly can't remember all of what we did on Tuesday... I just remember doing cross-contour and more short exercises with the model. Below is my cross-contour from that day.


On Thursday we went over the rib cage. In concept it seemed not that difficult. Make an egg shape where the ribcage sits in the body. Holy cow it was a -lot- hard than I anticipated! I had an extremely hard time trying to get the shape down right and the perpective down on which way it was sitting in the chest! I learned a lot in this class period but it is definitely something I really need to work on. We did many 30 second sketches and a few longer ones. We had 30 minutes to work on a cross contour. I don't have a lot to show for it because I spent almost all of that time just trying to get the perspective down. I almost got it on the 4th try when Amy came over to my rescue!


I'm have a heck of a time trying to produce 300 words for each blog... I'll just end it with this I guess: I'm really enjoying this class and am getting a lot out of it for it being only the first month. I can't wait to learn more! My cross-contours are getting better but I need to work a lot on the ribcage now!