My Final Blog Entry

This is my final blog post which is kind of sad yet very exciting at the same time.  Over the course of the semester in Life Drawing 1 I have learned a lot.  This was the first time that I had ever draw from life which proved to be challenging yet enjoyable.  I learned a lot about the figure, from drawing the figure, the lectures Amy gave in class, and building the manikin.

With this blog post I am also posting a picture of my last shell drawing that I completed.  For this shell drawing I found myself being more patient with the ink, and trying to leave some of the paper to reveal highlights in the shell.  I feel that I could have added more of the red ink into the drawing as it is a little bit lacking, but I think incorporated better then my previous shell drawing.  I worked on receding my shell into space on this drawing and feel I was much more successful in that then in previous drawings, although my horizontal horizon line does not help this. 

Overall I feel much more confident in cross-contour drawing as before this class I had worked very little with contours.  I now feel that I am able to see the contours within objects much more easily.  I feel that my gesture drawing have also improved a lot as I remember the first few times we did gesture drawing and not even being able to get half of the figure drawn before the time was up.  I have also worked on varying line weights, although I feel that I still need to work on this a bit, I am more aware of this and hopefully it will start to show in my drawings.  I feel that much of the knowledge that I gained throughout the semester will be applied in other classes and eventually be able to help me in my own classroom as a teacher one day. 

A collection of my course work can be found at the following link: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55288360@N02/sets/