This semester has helped me use line to communicate form. I feel more confident describing form with few lines. I still have to work not to draw too many lines to define one edge though. My drawings are not as clean as they could be. I'd like to be cleaner and simpler with my lines. I am also interested in the angles created by the body and look forward to exploring what arms do with that. Negative shapes between limbs and the torso also interest me, as they could be interesting to bring into the negative space between a handle and the body of my pot. Becoming proficient with proportions, especially those in length, is also something I would like to achieve.

I've been enjoying the simpler poses. The gestures often get strange stretches where the body appears awkward in real life, which makes it difficult to have it not appear awkward on the page. The extended poses tend to be much simpler and I think this is a significant factor to me finding success with them.

The longer poses are coming out with nice results. I've been playing with using the weight of the line with to indicate its relation to me in space. Sometimes this has been successful, other times I might have been better of with something else, but considering the volume of drawing we've done, it's nice to experiment.

This week my drawings had much less sketchy line problems. I am happy with the effects of fewer lines.

Keeping every long axis at a diagonal has also been helpful in having a dynamic drawing.

Proportions are still a bit trick, as you can see in the lower legs of this image, but I'm sure those will get better.

We did a lot of gesture drawings this week and briefly touched on line value and drawing interior lines. I tried to focus on making each line I drew have more impact on the outcome of the drawing as opposed to having a lot of lines and hoping some end up in the right spot.

This blog, at least for the time being, will be used to host my work and thoughts from Life Drawing I, taught by Amy Fichter.

This semester I hope to improve my drawing skills while studying the figure. To be able to analyze a complex three-dimensional form quickly and structurally is a skill that I look forward to developing.