Nov 1 - Nov 5

I can't believe how fast this week went. The first day of class (tuesday) was spent doing gesture drawings and then a long pose. I'm enjoying seeing the progress I'm making, especially after doing the Flickr account! It's interesting to see where I was and now where I am. My gesture drawings seem to be getting the most improvement, which a relief, but even now they still can be a struggle.

As our long drawings get longer I find myself sort of zoning out near the end; running out of steam you could say. That's something I need to work on. It seems like so long ago, with Drawing II, could I sit for 3 hours and draw and maybe take one break. I do, however, find that as the poses get more difficult I'm able to draw them better. Learning about foreshortening has definitely helped with that struggle. Even from day one we were all dealing with foreshortening, and now it's reassuring to know the "rules" on that.
The horizontal drawing is from Tuesday and the arm has foreshortening (even more so than on the models pose for me today).



The pose we had today (Thursday) was very similar to one that I had already done. The nice part about that was that I could compare and contrast the two, and noticing the difference really helped! It was good to see that my torso was actually the right height this time (not so elongated), and the legs were pretty accurate as well!