Sunday, October 3, 2010

Second Week (Life Drawing)


This week in Life drawing, we had a model come to class one day and we continued to study how to draw the human form by doing timed gesture drawings, and ending with a long pose. The long pose seems to be a lot easier for me. As I said earlier, I think I am learning more and improving each day.

We also learned about the muscles on the human body. We had a session where the professor taught us the names of the muscles and how they are used. Then we were given a skeleton and clay and were instructed to use the clay to form muscles on the skeleton.

The muscles we needed to make this week were the Spinalis Cervicis, Spinalis Capitis, Spinalis Thoracis, Longissimus Capitis, Longissimus Cervicis, Longissimus Thoracis, Illiocostales Cervicis, Illiocostalis Thorasis, and the Illiocostalis Lumborom muscles. All of these muscles are on the spinal column going from the neck to the bottom of the spine.

Creating these muscles was definitely the most difficult thing I have done yet in this class. It was hard to translate from the book how the muscles were supposed to look in 3 dimension on the skeleton. The hardest part was the fact that the book only showed one muscle at a time so you could not see how to fit together. But after a long time, I figured it out.

Aside from it being difficult, it was actually fun to do.

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