Nov 29 - Dec 3

This week has gone so incredibly fast (as I'm sure the next few will). Tuesday was a quick lecture about the remaining muscles we need to add to our manikin....alllllll 50 of them. Needless to say, I left the class a bit discouraged.
We didn't draw on Tuesday or for the week prior, so getting into drawing today (Thursday) was pretty difficult, but nice. The quick poses that we usually do were pretty difficult for me, especially since we started to add the collar bones and shoulder blades. Below is one of my better of today's 2 min drawings.

While I think all the information is there and a viewer can understand the body, the craftsmanship is definitely not. I was excited but not at all ready to do another long pose. I was relieved to find out that we would be focusing on the upper body, while the rest was just optional. I did from the top of the head to about down the the ankles. The hands were my main struggle (especially the fist), but I really had wanted to attempt them.

I can't believe class is coming to an end. I can't help but feel overwhelmed and a bit disappointed. I know that there isn't hardly any time left but I had truly looked forward to learning to draw the face. It's been quite a redundant semester; same model all year, and the same shell drawing 4 times. And although my drawings have gotten so much better I feel that a change somewhere along the way would have been nice and helpful. The face would have been so nice to understand and I'm sad that we are missing out on that.

In the mean time it's adding muscles and drawing the last view of the shell.