Semester 2 Life Drawing Week 2 Homework

Homework Task:

The week's homework (in my understanding) was to practice drawing life drawing poses that weren't from the perspective that I was seeing. What I ended up doing was drawing people in the Animation class, and then trying to turn them around in my head and draw them that way.

The first day I tried to do this was really frustrating for me. I feel like I couldn't draw the figure, much less the pose from a different angle.

 The poses just didn't look human. I think one part of this is that I'm not used to drawing people with clothes on, which tricks me into thinking their body looks different than it actually does. The image on the right makes this clear, since the body was definitely drawn too wide. Other than that, though, I had trouble emulating perspective when I was doing a second drawing.

I think the same issue as usual is showing up; I can't get the core shapes to appear 3D on the page. I tend to draw the spheres just as circles, which makes the whole image flat, and lacking in perspective. One image where I think I got the perspective down pretty well is below.

The Image on the right, one from the top, is one of my more successful attempts.

Otherwise, I think the same issue I talked about last week restricted me from really getting the body right. I just don't have a sense of human proportion, which means I can't manipulate for perspective.

Strangely, on the second day I tried to do this work, I actually feel like I was a lot more successful. I think that I was more accurate to the shape of the body, and the images actually look somewhat human by comparison to my first attempt.

I don't know why this was the case, since nothing really changed. It's possible that I just can't see how these ones don't work as well as the others, but I do think there's better understanding of the different muscles and bones in the body.  Looking at it now, I do see plenty of flaws, but something about these do seem more cohesive. There's more attention to the relationship between shapes in a few of these drawings, so I hope I can push my drawing in this direction next class.