WEEK 8

This week in Life Drawing I feel was one of the more successful weeks for me. Both days I left class feeling confident and happy about the work that I completed in class. Both days I noticed that for once, my proportions are finally starting to get closer and closer to accuracy. 


I've been enjoying the long 2 hour drawings we've been doing in class. Today I feel like I had the most fun, and may have produced my best figure drawing. Of course it was dark but it was proportionate for the most part. Ever since I've started to work on the Drawing horses, I find my patience not running out like it usually does when I stand. 


I need to take a picture of that and have Amy give me back my shell drawing so I can present it for MPR. Because of this I am a little cranky with the demands of school. I'm trying to keep my head above water and stay productive. Instead of blogging about what has been going on in class, and my improvements; I find myself prioritizing what needs to get done. Blogging usually takes a back seat. I'm sure this week I will be unfocused, and more concentrated about getting things done on time.. i.e the 2nd contour drawing. Once thursday is over, I'll be able to breathe a little bet more, and maybe focus my attention on the muscles. 

A fast gesture drawing. As you can see, I love to elongate the torso. I didnt bring back any of my recent drawings to show my improvement but I plan to photograph my improvements. 

WEEK 6/7 (?)

I know that since we had no class one week, Amy told our class that we didn't have to do a post that week. I still ended up taking pictures of my cross contour shell drawing, but what I'm trying to get at is I don't know if I'm behind with my Blogs. 


School is picking up, and I have mid-program review coming up, other classes are getting more crazy, and sadly, last week Life Drawing took a place on "the back burner" for me.


I have constructed my thigh muscles, which was a lot of work but like I keep blogging, about how working with the clay muscles gets easier. But, it is and it isn't. I find when I am working and focused it's not that bad. When I'm finished I find myself just being mentally strained and annoyed with the clay. It's a lot of strange emotions. 


I feel like I was able to catch up with the expectations for class tomorrow. I got flickr set up. I'm kind of nervous to talk about my art. I feel like I am improving, yet I know there's more I am hoping to make proportional figures by the end of the semester. 

I uploaded this sketch onto my flickr. Although the proportions are not correct, I like that I'm starting to develop my own stylized figures. 

Here is another longer gesture drawing. It's kind of mixed up but I'll find my way. 

FLICKR ACCOUNT

Alisha Peterson's Flickr Account!


Here is my newly made Flickr account. I have never made one before, but it is fun to see my art uploaded to share with my peers. 


The works contains long and short time periods of gesture drawings, clay manikin muscles, and a cross contour study of a shell. 

CROSS CONTOUR drawing

Here is my process to my Cross Contour process. I began with setting up and spreading out in the kitchen. I found my scale to be extremely hard. I have always struggled with large proportions. I do think that I was able to achieve a good size, yet something that must be improved on is my LINES! This is something I know is a struggle for me. I have noticed that its something that possessed all the better drawings I see in class when we share, and I NEED to learn how to take time and honestly think very hard about the lines I put down.

I am fairly glad with the way things look but as always Amy keeps reminding us that even the best artists can improve and usually always put a "wrong" mark down. I know this needs improvement and I am interested in maybe reaching out and going to a tuesday free life drawing class. I think that the extra time will allow me to play around with other ideas and and methods i have and also of course give me practice. 

Getting set up to draw. 

First few lines put down. Again, I know I have heavy mark making. 

I like how this ended up. I didn't want to over work it (I have a tendency to do so.) I'm fairly happy with this. Although i know this needs improvements, but i do like that i did not over work it. If Im prone to anything it would be adding too many more harsh lines. I know that maybe my long axis needs to be fixed. but I will see about how my review goes. What i am most interested in, is the India Ink. I saw a few in the halls in the spring and I can not wait to see how mine will turn out. Until then i need as much practice as i can get to make sure that i can produce something that reflects how genuine interest in this class. 

WEEK 5

Hello to all!


Wow this week was an interesting one. Class was cancelled both days! Tuesday the classroom was too warm for the whole class to be drawing in. I liked the idea to get more of muscles to sculpt and have the rest of the class time to go get that finished. We had Annie and Matt come over and it was a lot of fun to work with other class mates. Each assignment with the clay I am starting to become more confident. Or maybe it's because I am working with class mates to figure it out. It is comforting to know that I'm not the only one gets a little confused.


We do have the contour drawing with our shells that are due on Tuesday, sadly I have not started that. I am interested to start. I am excited about the subject, I think that the shell is really pretty. I just know that it's going to take a lot of time, and this semester is picking up very fast.


Thursday, was a hectic day! Fire drills were going off everywhere in Applied Arts. When they were finally over the class hung out in the room for quite some time before we all realized that Amy had called in sick that morning! Haha, it was kind of funny, and the chance that the whole week of class was cancelled was kind of a nice break. I am looking forward to having it this week. As much mental work it is to stay so focused, when I was out of class I realized how long it is that we are actually drawing. That time is really long, and It did make me appreciate the time I have during the week to have 6 hours of practice.

This would be me, kind of intimidated by the skeleton

Julia, Annie, and myself having a clay party! Much more fun with other =) 

WEEK 4

OOPS!  


I forgot my password to my gmail. I almost started to panic. 


During life drawing this week, Thursday's class probably was the most significant for me. Amy had us extend our drawing utensils so were were forced to draw lightly and slowly. This has been an issue that I have struggled with pretty much since I was little. I love to mark make, and draw hard. Plus I also have discovered I draw pretty fast. This was so much help for me. I finally started to get the hang of it by the end of class, and it kept my attention span. I notice myself keeping a short attention span during this class, which is very unusual. I'm very interested in improving, and if I start to keep in mind that I need to slow down, and LIGHTLY draw, I'll be better at observing what is in front of me. 


We also got our first project to draw (as pretty as we can) a cross contour drawing of out shells. 
I love my shell because the shape of it is so beautiful. The contrast between the rough, and smooth curves of it will be fun for this assignment. We are also told that this piece should be done within 5 to 6 hrs. With my new found mental-notes from Thursday, I think this will be a great start to try to practice and exercise this idea. 


Lots to do! and it's fun that the ball of the class started to roll, and we are into the actual meat of the class. I'm looking forward to a week of hopefully, lighter drawings, slower speed, and practice. I know I have not put many pictures up on my blog yet. Sadly I can't find my Camera charger.. It's very annoying but I've decided I need to go to the Resource Center and rent one out. I hope to have some pictures to share with you later this week! I'm finally starting to produce some forms that I would like to share, until then.. 


Take care everyone and happy drawing! 

This is one of my first gesture drawings that I was practicing in class. I think I was fairly successful at showing that she was bending over her knees with her back to me. 

trying hard to find the pubis bone

WEEK 3

Getting the assignment to construct the spinal column with the clay and models was a tough assignment! I didn't know how to go about doing this, and if there was a right way to go about doing it.  Once getting settled in class, and observing everyone else's clay models I knew I wasn't the only one who felt less than confident in my assignment. Amy did a mini lecture about what are some helpful tips we can use for the next time around. I feel less anxious about the next clay assignment with them in the back of my mind. 


When thinking about human figure drawing, I never expected the body to be drawn from the inside out. It is so much fun and different than other drawing, where you think about compositions, perspective, color and positive and negative space. Personally its showing me a new appreciation for animation, and character drawings. Being able to have your own style of drawing people is something that I would like to be able to do someday. 


On Thursday we got a large lecture about the rib cage, and its relation to the spinal column and the torso. It was a long and complicated lecture but Amy did a good job making going slow and explaining it in an easy to follow way. We also practiced with the live model doing gesture drawings.


I find myself getting mentally tired out by the end of class, and even a little before it. I hope that I'm able to over come that, because I understand that practice is the only thing that will help me get better, and more focused with the position in front of me. 


I hope that next week well be filled with lots of drawing. With all the new information I'm gaining from each class I'm excited to apply more of it to my drawings. I'm looking forward to producing a well proportioned gesture drawing, that has my own since of style in it.