LONG DRAWINGS

My long drawings have continually increased in quality. The line weights and the proportions of the figure are slowly becoming stronger. At the beginning of the class I had a habit of making many marks to make a line of the figure, I have worked through this quite a bit and my drawings are becoming better and better. I have also seen improvement in my sketching in my ID class. Through gestures and trying to create the human figure with mostly lines and different line weights my design sketches have loosened up to create more interesting and visually appealing drawings. The drawing posted below is my most successful drawing at this point in time. The line variation creates a sense of dimension and the fore-shortening of the legs is very effective. Also the overlap of the lines on the knee and back ankle gives a lot of good information about the figure.

Muscles_ Torso to Leg

The strongest part of my manikin as of right now is the spinal erectors and the lower leg muscles. The quadraceps and the ham-strings would be the area I would want to revise. I the muscles are visible in the right two images. The positioning of the muscles are correct yet the muscle size seems to be to small the images I have seem do not seem to be full enough. The knee area is also an area that there are so many muscles crossing and bridgng that joit the connection points seem to get lost.

GOOD Gestures

Three of my best gestures so far in the class.


These three drawings were all in the 1 to 3 minute time range. I choose to post these because of the looseness and the line variations. The last two show very dynamic lines and convey the position and emotion of the figure. The middle image was as more relaxing pose an the right image was pose that could be in motion. Also compared to the previous gesture posting these, are created by using more exaggerated curves to show the leg positions and the rib cage angles. The main use of the cures are the thigh and calf areas of the figure. As I started to use the more curved lines to express how the figure was posing it became easier to look back and see that post on the paper while I was sorting though all of my gesture drawings.

Gestures

gesture #1                   gesture #2                            gesture#3

My gesture drawings have come a long way from the first few days of class. I didn't really know what a gesture drawing was so the first image was a rough outline of the figure. The second and third drawings, were after the demo on long axis drawings.  The later drawings show much more information, about the figure. As we learned more about the ribcage and the pelvis the position of the figure becomes more visible.

  

Blog, Blog, Blog

The most interesting blog post I have come across on another blog was a post about a website called dieselstation.com. The image he posted was very eye catching and I think that because I was interested in car design at one point in time. I found the concept cars on the site very inspiring. 

 To be honest I do not like much about blogging. I enjoy looking at other blogs but, I don't think I will do much of this type of thing after this class. I tend to forget about my blog until we have a post assignment. It is very frustrating when posting pictures and text. The layout is complicated as confusing.  

Some posts I may want to do, are more of my work from other classes. Also just some of my personal interests in art and other areas of life. I just have trouble finding time to post these things. I would rate my blog as an A for image quality, but probably a C+ for writing. I really have a rough time talking about my work. The commenting on group members posts I haven't done much because there hasn't been much other that muscle pics to comment on.