I really enjoyed this weeks task as it gave me an opportunity to practise full human figure anatomy which I had not had a go at in ages. We had to do 3 drawings within the 2 hours of the still life model standing and sitting in different poses. The main focus of the task was to capture the proportions and muscles accurately through the use of line and weight. I think this was quite a challenging task as there are lots of technical elements to drawing an accurate human figure and when you get things out of proportion the whole piece starts to look very wrong and it is quite noticeable.
One of the things I found most challenging with this task was the legs. I kept drawing them much too long and not fully understanding the muscles and how they were structured in relation to the pose and the other muscles around it. I think I would like to learn more about how the muscles overlap each other and work around the joints and muscles as I think this is where I have particularly struggled with this piece of work. I also think maybe doing some full shaded anatomical figures after this task would help me further my knowledge in how the muscles look in relation to each other. I would like to have a look at some of divincis work to help with my extra studying on this.
Originally my use of line and weight was quite messy and rough so after the lecture I went back in and corrected them along with the use of some other refences of the male anatomical figure. I tried to use darker and more heavier likes for areas of depth and shadow with muscles that had more prominent and defined shape to them in contrast to more softer edges where I used lighter line weight. I added some very basic shading definition using some hatching just to get some further definition on prominent shadows on the figure. I found this task quite challenging due to the complexity of the human figure and how all parts must tie in well with each other to achieve a convincing drawing.
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