Hands and Skulls

Hands were always difficult for me to get right. When I have done it before in previous classes where we drew from our own hands it was hard to get the proportions correct. Part of the reason might be that I have long figures and were easy to get them to look disproportional. It wasn’t just me who had trouble drawing my hands, my partner seem to struggle a little getting the proportions right but did a great jobs despite my long fingers. When it was my turn to drawn her hands I tried to create the planes of them and go from there. I was able to block them in all right but still had some trouble getting the different sections right. The first drawing I did was hard to get right I was trying to do both the planes and what I saw at once and it just seemed to get a little muddled. The second one I did better, I was able to focus on the planes and try to get them in the right place and then added the contour lines and other lines and shapes.

Skull 1

Skull 2

The skull is the other part of the body we focused on during class this week. They were easier than then I thought they were going to be. They were fun to do because I never though of how the skull is laid out with planes and the face only make up one third of the skull. I especially like drawing the side of the jaw where it met up with the top part of the skull. In my drawings, I like to measure and pick a point and draw from there to get the angles and lines correct.  I liked drawing that part of the skull because I could use the bottom corner, as a point to get other parts correct. The first perspective view drawing of the skull I made it have a gorilla jaw. In the picture you can kind of see where I had draw in the jaw and was erased. The drawing over it was Amy’s; she was able to help me figure out what I was doing wrong. The second one was more of a profile view, I think I got the most of it in the correct position but the jaw might be longer then it should be.