What I learned from Life Drawing II

What I have Learn...

This semester I had a chance to take a more in depth look with the human anatomy, something that I have always hope of doing when enrolling at UW-Stout. Took me 4 years but I finally had the chance to take a crack at it. The bone drawing was a great exercise for me to study the bone structures. I was able to get a better understanding of each different sides to a bone. The self Portrait assignment afterwards was great too. After working with the skull, I liked how we were able to apply that with self portraits.

I guess one of my best work is my self portrait. (first one below) Now that I look back at it, I really wished I would have used charcoal pencils instead. But it was a great experience working with a new media like conte (I mean it's not new, but new to me). Just something I haven't try so that I know what to expect next time around.

It has been a great experience this semester. I guess my weakest is still shading. Always not good and hope to get better. Thanks everyone for a great time. Keep looking back to my blog for more stuff from me!

Self Portrait

Self Portrait


Here are the self portrait of ME. I used conte pencil on Stone Henge paper. It was my first time using Conte pencil and it didn't shade as well as I thought it would like a charcoal pencil.

Figure Drawing/Study

Here is a figure study drawing of a model in class. Here I tired figuring out the side planes of the model's body as well as establish some cross contours to give it volume.

Skeleton drawing process

Back Side

Here is an in-progress drawing of my skeleton drawing. I am currently learning the human skeleton and thus, this study should help me explore more in depth into the structures and functions of each bone.








Front Side

Hand Drawing

Bone Drawing (Hand)

Here's another bone drawing done in my class. In this drawing, I try to represent the plane changes with the darken values. However, since this was almost a straight on view of the back hand, there weren't much to suggest. Also, due to that, I've added some cross-contours in it as well just so that it doesn't look so plain.

Cleaner picture

Here is a cleaner picture of my previous post a couple of weeks ago. Sorry for the delay but getting a good quality camera is hard to come by!

More bone drawings from Life Drawing II

Here is my drawing from Life Drawing II class. Below is my groups critique on this drawings.

Kalvins' – Pelvis might be a little big too wide. Right side seems a little bit bigger. Good contour lines that work well with shading. Rib cage looks like a different angle then the pelvis, good spacing between pelvis and rib cage. Line values need a little more consistency. Spine darkens up a little big. Gestural on the pelvis, but not in the ribs.

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