So this week in drawing on Tuesday 9/13 I was confronted right away with the fact that I have not drawn for a while and the results where not pretty. My right arm muscles where soar from the three hour class period, holding it up to the drawing easel. I love using my whole arm in the drawing process. I didn't have the patients needed to really see throughout the 30 minute drawings. Drawing fast always appealed to me with large hand gestures waving around trying to find the form. At times I get too detailed too fast with a drawing so perhaps the time constraint frees me to leave the drawing lines open and uncluttered with only the most vital information. Proportionally my drawings also needed help.
Wednesday 9/15 for some reason marked a large improvement and was able to settle down into a rhythm to almost hammer out one of the three skull perspectives due next week. Focusing on the skull for most of the class period, my eyes began to see nuances that where before hidden as I tried to describe it on the paper. The jaw really gave me problems as it receded in the middle and came out again at an angle toward me with multiple complex plains. When I stepped away, took a break, and came back I was able to draw the larger plains and it seemed to come into perspective a lot better. I still remember that moment in my memory like a picture when I saw that part of the jaw that was missing. Surprisingly I didn’t measure and was able to proportion the skull accurately just from the long observation and redrawing of the lines. I especially had a lot of attempted lines around the circumference of the skull that I tried to blur out with my hand by smudging the lines. We did this with Loom in Drawing 1. I think he made us create multiple histories under the drawing where we could draw for a period and then we where required to brush over the whole drawing with a papertowl and start drawing again. By the end I love the tone that was created around the drawing from brushing out lines and the interesting dynamic lines shooting out and around, evidence of the struggle for accuracy.
Wednesday 9/15 for some reason marked a large improvement and was able to settle down into a rhythm to almost hammer out one of the three skull perspectives due next week. Focusing on the skull for most of the class period, my eyes began to see nuances that where before hidden as I tried to describe it on the paper. The jaw really gave me problems as it receded in the middle and came out again at an angle toward me with multiple complex plains. When I stepped away, took a break, and came back I was able to draw the larger plains and it seemed to come into perspective a lot better. I still remember that moment in my memory like a picture when I saw that part of the jaw that was missing. Surprisingly I didn’t measure and was able to proportion the skull accurately just from the long observation and redrawing of the lines. I especially had a lot of attempted lines around the circumference of the skull that I tried to blur out with my hand by smudging the lines. We did this with Loom in Drawing 1. I think he made us create multiple histories under the drawing where we could draw for a period and then we where required to brush over the whole drawing with a papertowl and start drawing again. By the end I love the tone that was created around the drawing from brushing out lines and the interesting dynamic lines shooting out and around, evidence of the struggle for accuracy.
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