Body World

I think that so far this semester, Body World has been my favorite experience. It excites me to see the body scientifically taken apart and explained. I could spend hours in that exhibit just looking over each detail of every bone, muscle, ligament, artery, etc. The section of the exhibit that intrigued me the most was the fetal/baby area. It is something that we haven't been able to discuss as a class or study in our drawings and it is weird to think that we started out so small. The drawing I chose to do while I was there was of a fetus at 20 weeks. I thought it was a good chance to expand my horizon. The main focus I had was the head and the arm. Unlike the adult body, the fetus head is much larger than the rest of the body and it seems quite out of proportion! It was also interesting that the skull isn't fused together... it is in pieces!

I have started to become worn out on the human figure and I am really looking forward to the large shell drawings, as well as getting to use ink instead of pencil and charcoal. It will be a nice change of pace!

November 9

Last week I had a really hard time drawing. Between the midterm and skeleton work, we just didn't have much drawing time. I noticed myself going back to old habits! It was like starting all over again, and I found it to be quite discouraging. I want to get better at drawing the human form, but I feel like I am in a rut. I would really enjoy doing more of the longer poses instead of the gesture drawings. I feel as though we have done so many gestures at only 30 seconds that all of mine tend to look the same. I would rather start with one or two minute gestures so that I have a chance to get more of the limbs and details in. After getting my critique back from our midterm I found that I was correct when I stated that I needed more work in my line weight, however, I also noticed that I don't have time to get any line weight changes into my gestures with the time constraint. Is it alright to go back and touch up my sketches even if we aren't in class anymore? I have a hard time doing that because I like to have the model in front of me, not just guessing. I think it would be a nice change of pace if we started doing some of the limbs up close as well as the face. And then maybe come back to the whole body after we have studied some of the details.

Overall, I am feeling a little tired of the usual and I am looking forward to our trip for a nice fresh start/adaption to what we have been doing.