Midterm Portfolio

Well, here's the link to my portfolio to start with. No clue if I did it right:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48510655@N03/sets/

I feel I've learned a lot over the first half of the semester in Life Drawing 1. It has definitely helped to develop my personal skills of drawing, and I'm exhilirated by that notion. I think the biggest learning tool over the course was studying the models, and learning how the muscles worked together to create the curves and lines we see on the body. It especially helped to apply this learning while we were working on cross-contours. I know before this class, I absolutely hated doing these, but applying them to the human form gives me a better understanding of the body as a three-dimensional object.

Personally, I really would love to work more on getting fore-shortening down as we haven't really covered that very much and I know that is a big weakness for me. Trying to see the lines in space to get them at just the right length to get the idea of foreground/background is something I have a hard time wrapping my head around. I think my strongest aspect of drawing that makes up for this is really understanding the anatomy of the body and being able to view the subject and apply it in a way that the proportions are fairly accurate.

Honestly though when it comes to doing homework with the shell, I'm a little frustrated. I completely understand that the shapes and lines on the shell are supposed to relate to the human body, but for some reason I've always had a harder time drawing inanimate objects compared to the human body. It would be nice if at least one homework assignment was to have an image of a person or yourself and do a drawing based off that with continuous line, blind contour, cross-contour, or any other technique.

Lastly, I'm not really sure anything I've learned in Life Drawing really relates to my other courses (which are Critical Writing, Interiors II, and Lighting Design) besides my Yoga class. These two courses are already tied together, so I don't know if I need to go into depth about what's already covered between them.