Back from break!

We did some more gesture drawings this week, and I felt like I had already gotten rusty with my gesture drawings. I need to work more on trying to get the whole body in my gestures within the 30 seconds, because I usually spend too much time on just trying to get the spine and ribcage right. I loved working on drawing the feet the week before break, I felt like I really got the hang of drawing everything. My favorite part to draw of the feet was the malleolus, which again, is the raindrop shaped bone structure on the outside of your ankle.

This week, we learned about the Acromion Process and the summit of the shoulder, which is also known as the “high point”. The acromion process is connected to the shoulder blade part of your body and comes and wraps around your shoulder slightly. The shoulder girdle consists of your: clavicles, also known as your collar bones; scapula(e), also known as your shoulder blades; and the spine of the scapula. The scapula is located from about your 2nd to your 7th ribs, and it is about ½ the length of your ribcage.

This week, we were assigned the deltoids, the latissimus dorsi, and the pectoralis (major). The deltoids consist of: the deltoideus pars spinalis, deltoideus pars acromialis, deltoideus pars clavicularis. The pectoralis major consists of: the pars abdominalis, pars sternocostalis, and the pars clavicularis. The trapezius consists of: the pars spinalis, pars acromialis, pars clavicularis.


This is my drawing of the tibia, fibula, and the patella.

Week before break

This week, we started focusing on the legs and feet. Last week, we kind of defined the knees and femur a bit, but that transitioned into the tibia, the fibula, and the rest of the feet bones and muscles. I personally like drawing the feet and legs more, because I feel like we get more time to actually look at all the different tiny angles and more time to get everything to look more proportional. And I also think that the feet are little more interesting to look at and draw, don't get me wrong, I like drawing the torso and hips and everything else, but it's just, I've never really focused on feet before. We learned about the different mini-bones that makes up the feet, such as the cuneiforms, which means, “wedge”. The cuneiforms are made up of three wedges. The second cuneiform forms the bump on our feet. This really interested me, because I always noticed that my bump on my left foot was significantly larger than the bump on my right foot. Now I know what bones formed those bumps. I learned that there are 5 metatarsals for each foot, “meta” means “beyond”. The metatarsals consist of a “box”, “rod”, and a “ball”. It enables the toes to rotate. The toes are made up of three phalanges, except for the big toe; which only has two. The distal phalange is the very point of the toes that has the nail bed sitting on top of it.


This is the drawing from Friday's class, I thought the top foot was pretty successful, while I could have worked more on the bottom one, because it looked really wonky to me. No matter how much I fixed it, it did not look correct at all. As you can see, I first started drawing the feet really long, but I realized that it was foreshortened a little. My favorite part I drew of the top foot is the lateral malleolus, which we didn't learn yet, but Amy said it's the "raindrop"-shaped bone outside your ankle. A tip Amy gave me, was to lighten the lines of the objects that were further back in space (the heel in the top drawing), so the darker lines (the toes in front) would pop out more.

Midterm Review

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I have learned so much in Life Drawing, during the first half of this semester. I had no idea how to draw bodies correctly, and I didn’t know how to draw them proportionally. This class has helped me improve greatly in my drawings. I didn’t know much about the human body at all coming into this class. I knew that we had a sternum, ribcage, bones, and muscles. That’s pretty much all I really knew about the human body. I’ve learned about the different body landmarks that people can look for to make accurate drawings of the body. Ones such as the sacrum and the Cerebral 7 landmarks really helped me out. Even the sternum and the xyphoid process helped me form my “egg” shape a lot better. Something I learned that was very interesting to me was that we had 12 pairs of ribs, and that the last two are “floating ribs”. Which means that they don’t attach to anything in the front like the other pairs do. The changes I have noticed in my drawings is that, my body proportions are far more accurate and I can actually draw most of the body (without looking at references) now, although most of the times it might not be too accurate. I also noticed that at the beginning of our class, when we didn’t learn about the ribcage or pelvis yet, I could capture the whole body in our 30 seconds of gestural drawings, but now I can’t capture as much. This is a good thing, because it makes me draw a little slower and makes me take my time to measure the angles of everything correctly. I hope that in the second half of class, I learn to draw the whole body correctly and produce better gesture drawings. Something in-depth I would like to learn is the different segments of bones and muscles in our hands and feet. It would be interesting, and I feel like it would help me learn how to draw hands and feet well. Overall, I enjoy the class, and think it moves at a pace I am comfortable with.