Oct 4 - Oct 8

This week was pretty uneventful in class until our Thursday session. Tuesday consisted of notes/lecture and an introduction to our homework: a 5-6 hour continued contour line drawing of our shells.

Thursday we drew all session. The first 45 min or so was really rough for me; it seems to take me a while to warm up. We then worked on how we were drawing. By attaching two drawing utensils together and being no closer to the page than an arms-length away we were able to practice drawing with our shoulders. This was totally new to me (something that teachers had talked about, but never pushed), and SO difficult. After we worked on drawing as light as possible. I half thought about not drawing at all and saying that it was just really light, but I knew that wasn't going to fly. I had a bit of trouble drawing really lightly, especially doing so after 30 min. We did some 3 min quick sketches using our new techniques and then some 4 min sketches. We then did two 30 min sketches drawing very lightly and then going back and doing some measuring and quick line drawings over, showing the precise angle of the parts of the body. By this point I was completely warmed up and getting more used to the new drawing technique!