I was a bit rusty when I began to draw, but I'm pleased with my first round of gestures. After starting, it wasn't long before I began having difficulty trying to recall the skull lectures from Life Drawing 1. I struggled to remember the plane angles and other anatomical landmarks that aide the drawing process. I took what information I could remember and worked with that, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was easier for me to get back into drawing than I had anticipated. Although I was having the aforementioned problems, I was able to smoothly regain a solid feel of the charcoal on the paper. I wasn't the greatest at the gesture when I finished Life Drawing 1 and knew that I still had a good amount of practice to do, but I could tell that I had done this before.
On Wednesday, we had a lesson on drawing skulls. One of the key ideas that I took away was about drawing heads from different angles. Beginning with a sphere, the method involved slicing off the left and right sides of the sphere to create the flat planes of the sides of the skull. It then went on to line up the brow, nose, and chin, as well as adding a rectangular shape to the bottom of the sphere for the jaw. I believed that I could use this method to instantly improve my drawings, and was eager to utilize it when we began drawing.
We then started our first assignment of the semester (three long skull drawings; 3/4 front view, profile, and back view). Unfortunately for me, the method sounded a lot more straightforward than it was. I had just as much trouble drawing the shapes that created the foundation of the skull as I did when drawing the skull from scratch. All I could do was keep trying and hope that my three drawings turned out well.
No comments:
Post a Comment