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Here is the images of my work through out the semester.

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Second Half of Semester

The last part of the semester seemed to go by more quickly. I like how during class time we focused on different parts of the body for the day. I especially enjoyed learning the skull. Being able to break it down into planes and drawing it from the skulls was helpful to better understand where those planes are. Some of the techniques I learned while in this class were the use of contour lines to create shape of the body and shell we were drawing. Also measuring helped me to get the right angle and proportions right.

The use of contour lines can help me in my other classes, for example when drawing a product I could use contour lines to help communicate a change in planes. Also being able to understand the body can be put into relationship to other things I design. For example showing size and how the ergonomics of a product are related to the muscles and bones.

Through out the semester I have been able to work on my drawing skills. There is still room for improvement but with the consistent practice I’m beginning to get better with each class. The reason for taking this class was to help my drawing skills, even though it wasn’t directly related to product design.

Shell Drawing #4

For this shell drawing turned out all right, I liked how the third one turned out better. I tried to combine two different colors, brown and orange, to get a wider range of colors. With this shell drawing it seemed harder to control the ink and would wash off color in parts on the drawing I wanted to keep.  Also the charcoal mixed more with the color, changing it so it looked like a bluish / grayish tint. Some of the contour lines on the tail of the shell work but as you move forward the shape of the contour lines gets a little confusing. I probably should of used the shell more when trying to capture the lights and darks on the shell. Also with this shell is could of tried to make more emphasis on the plane changes in the front spirals. 

Manikins

When first getting the manikin I thought it would be easier then it was. The last big group of muscles that we got seemed to take a long time because of the pieces that we had to put on it. These pieces were different sizes and the book was confusing on where to place them on the manikin. Even after we go feed back, it didn’t get any clearer. I think the manikin turned out all right, some of the muscles might not be in the right places and such but it look like most of them are in the right place.  I like getting a change to work in 3D with the clay. It was a nice break from drawing and learning about the underlying muscles. I kind of wished that we had spent more time on learning the skeleton and the muscle structures so we can incorporate into the long poses and knew what to look for.

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.

Shell Drawing #3

I liked how this shell drawing turned out. It was fun trying to figure out the ink and how to make it work with the shell drawing. With this drawing I ended up starting over three times. The first just wasn’t working and the second one I was drawing the spirals wrong so they didn’t look like it was receding in space. So the three one I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. I also was able to get a good diagonal and better placement on the page. When we got into groups to give each other feed back on our shell drawing, they gave me some good things to work on to improve my drawing.

One of the main things that were discussed in my group was that my shell drawing seemed a little too mathematical. As in that the lines seemed to precise and in need of change in contour line as it goes around. Even though my shell is pretty round it still could use some line variation in the actual lines going around. They also said that it had good depth, volume and nice plane changes as it went back in space. Another thing that I could improve on is having lighter lines in the back and creating more detail in the front to create more focus and life. The way I did the highlights was confusing with some of the shadows I had incorporated in to the drawing. For my next drawing I plan to use a stronger light source or pay closer attention to where the light is coming from. With the light source I did was able to keep that area whiter and became the spot were you looked at first in my drawing. In the cavity of my shell I could be darker so the surrounding parts would pop more. Also discussed in my group was that I could use a more wider range of lights and darks with the inks. When looking at other peoples drawing I noticed that many were done in different styles ands different way of going about this assignment.

This week we learned about the shoulder girdle. This consists of bone markers, in the front is the clavicle and in the back are the shoulder blades. We didn’t have a model in class but we got to draw from the skeleton. This was the first time we had to so it was different than working with a model. I like working with the skeleton because I was able to actually look at where the landmarks came from the bones instead of going straight to the model and trying to figure things out as I go. Also when working with the skeleton I got help with getting the pelvis right. By getting the proportions right makes the drawing look more actuate. Being able to finding different points on the pelvis diagram I was able to correlate them to the drawing I was working on. 

 

We also focused on the shoulder girdle. When drawing it, I found it would have been easier to draw bigger and be able to look more closely as that part of the skeleton. The size that I drew it at I wasn’t able to go into too much detail. As the class went on I wanted to focus more on what we were learning in class, so I drew a closer up of just the shoulder blade and clavicle. It was harder to do at a bigger scale because I had some trouble getting everything in proportion to each other. Then the ribs were hard to line up with the other bones. This time it was also hard to put in some of the contour lines because the shoulder blade had ridges in it that was hard to capture the likeness of them.

 

We also got assigned the rest of the muscles for the manikin. Like the ones before we had to find the right place and try not to get them too big so they didn’t look disproportional. By finishing them I’ll be able to see some of them on the model when we draw them again.