October 30, 2006
Art and naked people
Half way through a class I've been wanting to take for years, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm in a figure drawing class.
The human body, and especially portraiture, has always been my favorite thing to draw. Still life is ok... and landscapes are, well, too big. I guess I prefer up close and personal stuff, and you can't do that with landscapes.
One of the most fascinating things we've been studying is anatomy. The skeletal system, and musculature. How it all works together. The first homework assignment (there are only 2 assignments for the entire semester) was to take a drawing done in class, lay velum over it, and draw the skeleton of the person in the drawing IN THAT POSE! Good Grief, what a project!! I got several books on anatomy, and slowly drew in the skeleton. Next, using another piece velum, we drew almost a wire form of the original, to show how the muscles impacted the form.
We are also keeping a "Hand and Foot" notebook... each week we are to spend 10 min a day drawing hands and feet. A terrific reference once I'm done. And in that book, we did a detailed hand (bones and muscles) and foot (bones and muscles). As of mid-term, I have an "A"! :)
Because of the size of our drawing pads, they're too big to scan. Maybe I'll scan some of the stuff from my hands and feet book!
Posted by Sherri at 08:20 PM | Comments (0) | Art
