Late work...

Ok, so for my first couple weeks back at school I've had a hard time getting back into the swing of things. This includes dealing with my life and schedule. This also means I've gotten behind on quite a few assignments that I should have done. I'm sure this has been frustrating for my instructors, and trust me when I say it's been incredibly frustrating for myself too. I hope by this time I've gotten my act together enough to start working my hardest on all my classes and really step up to what I need to do.

Anyway onto the blog.

So this week I took a picture of one of my favorite sketches that we did in class. We've been learning about the anatomy, spine and and bone structure, but being an illustrator from the rest of my life, I really like a good contour. I also really like the old pinups and more modern ones as well, so the reason this is my favorite piece from the sketches is because this displays a great curve to the body. It shows the important sort of emphasized curve that can be made from the right pose.

We've been doing a ton of short sketches to help practice drawing the form quickly. I don't entirely like doing this personally, but I don't mind it that much because it helps me see the body in a more simple form, and give me the ability to take down many different poses. The one thing I don't really like about doing the quick poses though is because I love to finish a drawing to what I want to to look like once I start. So this kind of forces me to sort of throw away each drawing before I can finish it. Anyway, I'm enjoying working from the model.