Oodles of Doodles

This post is about the idea of doodling and improving drawing skills. Since the beginning of school I have doodled my way through boring lectures. It made me wonder if that drawing is what helped me draw, create, and replicate. I drew everything from the designs on my folders, the flowers on the walls, and by the time I was in middle school I was drawing full portraits of the student in front of me. A man named Mike Artell wrote a book titled "Oodles of Doodles." The idea of the book is the same as the posting. Doodling pictures has always been very enjoyable for me and I believe that it has helped my improve my skills. Even though doodling distracted me from the content of the class I'm glad I did it because art is my career now and my future. Drawing makes me happy and I'm glad I did "Oodles of Doodles."

Glutes

This is my skeleton after I have built the glute muscles. This includes the gluteus minimus, medius, and maximus. It also includes building the tensor fasciae latae. Looking at my skeleton compared to others I need to pay attention to smoothing the muscles and making them look cleaner and fuller. After I was done with my glute muscles I realized that my muscles looks to flat and I needed to build them up more. I was missing for the tuesday class so I could not meet with my group but I see big differences between my skeleton and my groups skeletons. Just from looking at their pictures I can see how to improve my skeletons shapes and muscles. I think the way I built the muscles gives off false information. 

My Inspiration and Strength

When ever I'm down about anything in life or when ever I'm stressed, I can count on two places to take me back into a state of relaxation. They are places I've known since before I can remember. When life gets stressful just the thought of being there helps me relax. These are two pictures of my favorite places. The top is the lake by my Great Grandpa's house and the second in a train trestle by the house I grew up in.  Whenever I ever I don't feel creative I just put myself at the lake or on the trestle and it's like my mind clears and I can create anything. I feel the creativity come and it's like anything becomes possible. All it takes is for me to close my eyes and put my self on the peer of the lake and put my arms out and feel the breeze surround me. Not only do these places help me relax and become creative but they describe me as a person and how I want my life. They are peaceful, calm, relaxing, easygoing, and natural. There is not one car, building, person, or power line in sight; it's all mother nature. Everybody should have a favorite place like these. It really does help a person relax and create, my two favorite places to do my two favorite things. 

Interesting Facts about our Muscles

For my extra posting this week I wanted to do something related to the muscles we have been doing in our class. So here are a few interesting facts about the human muscles. It is really fascinating what our bodies our made of, what they can do, and how they do it. After reading these facts it really makes you appreciate what are models are doing and what it must feel like  holding their bodies in positions for long periods of time. 

*The biggest muscle in the body is in the gluteal maximus

 

*You use 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown

*When you move in any way you use at least 200 muscles

*Your muscles are around 40-50% of your body weight

*The fibers in your muscle can support up to 1,000 x their own weight

*It takes 72 muscles to produce speech

*75% of muscle is water

* There is no exact number on how many muscles are in the body. 

(No body can come to an agreement)

     *There are 6,000,000,000,000 muscle fibers and each fiber contains 1,000 separate threads called fibrils

 

Building Muscles Without the Gym!

This is the first post of the muscle building project. I really enjoyed doing this assignment, and I also learned a lot from it. I began building the muscles a lot the spine and the neck. These were muscles such as the Cervicis, Capitis, and Thoracis. These smaller muscles are used to rotate. They work together as a group to do their jobs. They were frustrating to build because it was hard to picture how they wrap around each other and meet parts on the spine. To over come this I just tried to place the beginning and ends of the muscles to meet in the correct spot. 

The next muscles I did were part of the Iliocostalis section of the muscles. These were also frustrating to twist together correctly. These muscles are used to bend to the front, side, and backward. 

The last group of muscles I did were the abdominals. These were the easiest to do for me and more enjoyable. These muscles are used over the stomach and allow use to bend our waist, back, and stomach. 

For the next clay assignment I think I would like to take my time more and also use more sources to see how the the muscles group together. This will help me place the muscles correctly on the skeleton. This project helps me to figure out the size of the muscles and how the muscles are shaped. When I question the size or relationships of back muscles on the model I can think back to skeleton and relate it back to my drawings.