Final Post for Life Drawing I

This will be my last post for Life Drawing. I feel a bit of relief saying that. Looking back, I started this semester with frustration and a feeling of just being too busy. And although that's pretty much how my entire semester went I was able to adapt and change to make it through. I entered this year going into two courses of Industrial Design, a challenge I was told, and "expect not to be able to work". Well, people were right, between those classes, this one, and another art history course I was booked and my bank account agrees with that. I struggled to keep a job and struggled to get by with my classes. I do feel accomplished with what I've done and proud of the quality that I think I've kept with my work.
Life Drawing I has taught me some very important and lifelong skills. I've gained to ability to see the human body in a different light. I came into this class without even a basic understanding of how the body worked and what made it move. I was challenged to see what's under the skin between what bone structures there are and how the muscles overlap one another to form a complete person.
Like I've said, I think this class has taught me a lot of valuable information. Becoming an Industrial Designer knowing the human body and its scale is important in all aspects. I know that my renderings have become stronger from taking this class and hope to gain further understanding by taking LDII. I've been better able to draw the human body and how it interacts with it's surroundings better and my ability to better tailor my designs for how the body works. One thing I still wish to gain is the knowledge of the range of movement a persons arms legs and torso can go through. Knowing the limiting factors of a persons range of motion would be a great addition to designing for people.
I was never too thrilled to do the maniken and don't feel it helped as much as it should have. The in class drawings were priceless and my quickness and line quality increased dramatically throughout the semester. The shell drawings helped understand contours of not only how a shell works but transferred to the human body. I hope to be able to come in to open drawings and continue my figure drawings. Finally, thanks and good luck.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44085260@N03/

Shell drawing went a lot better along with the manican. It was good to do some longer poses in class and really try to get a good overall feeling of scale. I feel like it is either taking me longer to get accurate information down or else I am noticing more the scale and proportions of things better and am able to see things with more detail. The more muscles and skeletal system we learn the more information we need to include within our drawings.

Tuesday, October, 27, 2009

What's Been Going On

So, what have I learned so far this semester? Well, I have really learned the structure of the human body. My understanding of the human body was very limited to what I currently know. The best thing that I know is the proportions of the body but this is also one of the things that I want to improve on the most. If I could figure out the exact proportions of the human body and scale of muscles I think this would help me the most in design with how to relate products and environments around the human body. My speed has also increased with the gesture drawings. I feel I can better get what I am seeing down onto paper. Also, with every muscle that we study and every bone I start to learn more the better I understand the figure we are drawing. It's interesting to start to figure out how the muscles hold to the bones and determine the figures shape. Things I want to get better at are understanding the pelvis better and how to draw it within the figure at whatever angle they would be laying or standing at.

link to flickr account

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packers win against lions

this week went by swell. pulled an allnighter to get sanders done. struggling through the weekend to get everything done. need to quit trying to have fun and do more homework. this week in life drawing did more cross contour line drawings which i find hard to do. Trying to see all the little hidden lines on the body and relate them to the drawing when they don't have shadow is very difficult. I think that these contour drawings are what I am going to struggle with the most. Doing a longer pose was nece to do since it allows you to really get to see all the intricicies of the model. Things that we normally don't see when doing quick gesture drawings. Doing muscle and bone studies does have its advantages when coming back and relating to the model and being able to see how they relate with each other.

New Pics of Work From Life Drawing One

Life Drawing Post

First drawing in life drawing. Another week down, another headache. Been doing nonstop renderings for my other two classes. The shell drawing was frustrating because my shell was microscopic and the bumps that were littered on it made it hard to get the overall pattern down. I probably should have taken some liberties and just drawn the overall shape of the shell instead of trying to get the entire shell down on paper. Anyways, looking forward to doing more drawing. seeya next week

Work from 3-D

WOW! What the hell is going on?

So here's my first post for the new semester. Wake up Call!!! Feeling a little frustrated with the outrageous amounts of homework and the timeline that it is expected to be done in. Okay, so a little frustrated is an understatement. I mean honestly don't these teachers realize that there are other classes in our schedule? Apparently not. Not you Amy, not that your schedule isn't tough either but these other classes are spinning me in circles. Anyways, I know I'm not the only one in a bind and should quit complaining, but to rag a little more, I think the cost of being in this major is going to break me.
For the first week of life drawing I've found it to be a nice release for me. To come to a class to simply observe and draw is very relieving. Not as awkward as I thought it would be to draw nude models.
And as I sit here going back and forth between printing documents for one class while studying for another and typing here I can guarantee that this is only the start of what will surely be the longest, hardest semester I will have here at stout. I guess maybe this should come as a relief meaning that the rest of my semesters here should be a cakewalk by these standards but right now it's hard to see the end.
Anyways not much for blogging so I'm going to cut it off here but will be back next week.

3 Gallery Viewings

I had gone to Furlong Gallery to view my three pieces.
"From the Earth to the Flesh and Back Again" (diptych) Carey Dean Oil/Canvas
Carey's two piece dyptich contrasts warm and cool shades of what seems to be a nature seen combined with elements of being able to see a life form emerge from it. The baron dried desert look of almost death compared to the lush environment contradicting it. It almost shows the highlife and lowlife of this one region, the struggle of life and death. The lines flow with many contour lines moving your eye around the piece.
"FLOTSAM" Bryan Ritchie Charcoal/Paper
Floating inflatable ducks suspended in a sea of what looks like crinkled paper with the use of foreshortening along with atmospheric perspectuve makes the piece move front to back. The sea of paper is very carefully smoothed while the inflatable ducks have a cartoonish movement about them trying to show their floating coarse. The ducks have very thick lineweights not particulary paid attention to; all with mysterious eye.
"Sequena 30" Jada Schumacker Digital Print
My first impression is seeing this very bold image with strict vertical stripes. Each stripe that I look at seems to jump off the page at me. It's contrasting colors lying next to each other seems to blur the page together. The longer you look at the image the more blurred and cross contaminating the colors get. You need to keep blinking to keep focus. The three white stripes throughout the piece keep bringing my eyes back to the whole piece. The rounded corners add another aspect of taking the image to the wall.

First Project

I want to further understand; who H.B. Halicki was. I know that he was an entrepreneur in the film industry who directed the original Gone In 60 Seconds along with other cult classic movies. This movie has enticed me since I was a kid. The combination of continuous action with a story plot surrounding automobiles kept me smiling from ear to ear. Halicki's films were short lived due to his tragic death in the filming of the second Gone In 60 Seconds where a planned explosion of a water tower went wrong.
I plan on doing a collage of Halicki's life as a film director with references to his films produced and the legacy that he leaves. Halciki's wife is trying to continue her husband's legacy by going further in depth into his life and the things he's done.

January, 29th

Today's further discussion of what defines a drawing has helped to further understand what we are doing as students. The history of drawing goes back to first scratch in the sand. Drawing has been used to record information, tell a story, show a diagram, and even our every day use of writing words down on a sheet of paper. Encountering drawings as a viewer and as an artist has impressed me, determined me to become better, and inspired me to create other works. Ever since childhood I've been intrigued by other people's works and finally I'm starting to be able to do works that I myself find credible.

Tuesday, January 27th

Trying to define a "drawing" within an hour between three people is hard if not impossible to do. Our group tried hard but struggled to agree completely on what it should be. The definition had to be loose enough to cover all sorts of work out there but yet limit the definition to keep out work that would not be considered a drawing. But not only that we were asked to refine what makes a drawing successful. Our thoughts were what we have been drilled with since enrolling at UW-Stout. Anyways, all in all it went real good.

drawing pictures

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