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.
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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