Final Blog!

This semester went so fast! But I feel that I have taken a lot away from this class. We have learned several features of the face and harder parts of the body to draw since midterm, such as the hands and feet. Hands and feet have always been a struggle for me, so by learning how to draw them better, I feel like it really improves my drawing as a whole. I also enjoyed learning how to draw the the features of the face and how they work together. By learning how to draw them and make them look three dimension, really adds volume to the faces I draw.
We also took a field trip to the Mall of America to see the bodies exhibit and then went to look around the MIA. This experience was really neat. I learned so much by wondering around and looking at the different bodies and body structures. All the different displays they had set up in there were fascinating as well. My favorite was the nervous system, just because it was really neat to see all the little nerves that branch off and got to different parts of the body.
Outside of class we worked on our manikins and shell drawings. We didn't get as far on our manikins as we were supposed to. But we finished all the leg muscles, and got to see how they fit and worked together. As far as the shell drawings, we completed two of them. The first one, didn't turn out as well as I would have liked. It didn't look like it receded into space and it needed the lines to vary in space more. However, the second one I drew the shell at a different angle and we painted it in India ink to add movement and depth the picture, and it looks a lot better than the first.
If there was one thing I wish we could have done yet in the class, it would have been to learn how to render the body. I felt like this class improved my line drawing, however, usually when drawing the body, you have to shade and show the depth by drawing in the shadows and highlights. I feel like this was some what accomplished in our shell drawings, but I would have liked to do it more in our drawings in class.

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