First of all, here is my flickr portfolio, the shell drawing will be uploaded later today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42765524@N04/

Ok, so I've had a bit of a rocky journey for this first semester back to college. First off I've had a heck of a time with this blog, even though I know it's such a simple thing to keep up. I wish to apologize for not keeping it up, though there is no real excuse as to why I didn't. I really don't like the idea of dealing with a blog on a regular basis anyway, so I guess that's what demotivated me enough not to do it.

Despite my lack of participation on this blog project, I am thoroughly enjoying the class. I love working with the live models and learning about the various ways to draw the body, along with learning the body structure. I kind of wish we would learn about the skeletal structure a bit before learning about the muscle structure, simple because I think it would be helpful to know.

Over all I am enjoying the class, it's what I expected, and I don't mind the out of class work that we do. I am also enjoying the sketches we get to do, and the exercises. My one qualm with the sketches, is at the beginning of the class, the blind contour and continuous contour drawings. While I can understand their value, I've done them in every single art class I've ever been in. I've done more blind contours than I can count, and I'm rather sick of them to be 100% honest.

I want to say that I have a good reflection on my work and that it has been getting better through the things I've learned in this class. I am better understanding the human form and how to set up proper measurements from one part of the body to the next. So far I think the class is doing a wonderful job, and I hope second semester goes the same if not better.