Favorite Long Drawings

Here I have selected three of my favorite drawings and one drawing to establish what I have learned throughout the first half of the semester. The first drawing of the model was a one hour drawing. It was very difficult to figure out how the upper body was shaped. The rib cage, the abdominals, and the hips were very difficult to draw correctly. But, I enjoyed this drawing because I was able to determine the correct shapes using the techniques learned in class. . The line value and portraying the muscles also made this drawing strong. It was a great pose to draw in the gluteal muscles, abdominal muscles, and also the Sartorus which begins at the outer hip and wraps around the thy down to the knee cap. 

The second picture I chose was a long drawing of the hip bones done from the skeleton. I enjoyed this picture because it has such strong line value. This was one point emphasized in class throughout every drawing. After I was done mapping out the bones using techniques we were taught using lines to determine that the angles of the bones were correctly drawn. 

The picture of the female model was my favorite long pose because I used all the techniques from class to map out the human body. The strongest part of this drawing is using foreshortening, the gluteal muscle, and the line value. The most successful part of actually drawing the model was the use of the spinal curves. I know that without the use of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral curves I would have struggled with angle of the body. 

The last picture is a 15 min. gesture drawing done from the skeleton. I chose to also post this drawing because it portrays every technique learned in class to make a 2D drawing look more 3D. This drawing has good line value, good egg shape, an angled sternum, a good hole at the top of the egg, very emphasized spinal curves, and finally good curves to portrait the shape of the thy and calves. I know that using all of these techniques will help me in my future career of being an art teacher. It is important to understand more than outlines and values in successfully producing something that is 2D. In the past I drew everything using only contour lines and then filling that in with value. I believe that my drawings would have been much more successful if I would have understood then what I do now. 

The last thing that all of this has taught me has been problem solving. In earlier drawing or painting classes I have become very frustrated with angles, foreshortening, and proportions. I learned from the class to break the problem down and learn from the situation. This will defiantly make me a better artist and employee. This will make me a better artist because I will know how to break down the problems and the struggles I face. It will also make me a better artist because I will know how to rely less on contour lines and value. This will produce better more 3D artwork. I think this knowledge will also give my drawings a advantage a lot of other artists lack. Learning how to problem solve will make me a better teacher because I will know how to help my students break down there art work when they face the same problems that my work faces. I remember trying to help my peers in class when they needed to break through situations that made their work look disproportioned and flat. I would help as much as I could but I often found myself confused with the same problems. But I know now that I would know how to help them through their problems.