three weeks!

Theres this little voice inside my head that keeps screaming, it makes me a little nervous. I dont feel as stressed out as I should be and trust me, I should be getting nervous. I have so many large projects to finish up, but it's just not phasing me yet.  This week we focused on parts of the face, particularly the eyes, nose, lips and ears. I'm glad we had time at the end of this semester to go over this because last semester we just ran out of time, so this is all new information for me! However, it's also something I would like to learn more about, so although frustrating it's very rewarding.  It's difficult for the drawings to have a likeness to the model, but I dont think i did too bad today.  With a little help from Amy I think my drawing was starting to shape up pretty well.  I always love watching Amy draw or make corrections to work.  She just sees things so differently, obviously because she's trained at what she's looking at.  It makes me feel blind somethings, like "oh shoot, how did I not see that obvious landmark?!".  Our final project is to do a self portrait.  I'm pretty nervous about actually drawing myself, I've drawn myself from pictures before and they usually turn out fairly flat.  This time i think my approach will to actually use a mirror and just take lots and lots of time, we'll see how it goes.

I miss the sun...

What a poopy week! first off, it snowed, it's disgusting and I'm royally sick of it. Today is the first day I have seen the sun and I have to be in class all day.  I need to pack, seriously. I dont know why I'm blogging about the sun and packing, but It seems important.  On a serious note, theres four weeks left in the semester, I'm freaking out. I have so many huge projects that I have no motivation to do and then I'm basically graduating. I have student teaching next semester, which I haven't even received my placement for and then after that, I have to grow up.  I've spent four years complaining how much I want to graduate and now that I'm here.... i'm blank. I want to be done, but now what? Apply for grad school? get a job? Sometimes I wish that this were all already planned out for me, but i suppose that would defeat the purpose of actually "living". 

back to life drawing:

Tuesday we worked on the skull. I LOVE working on the skull.  It's slightly irritating because it's basically one big optical illusion.  It's difficult to get the placement of landmarks and remember that the cranium is actually 2/3 of the skull, thats HUGE.  I've been dabbling with some portraits and studies of skulls from previous classes, but it was nice to have a refresher and everyone focusing on the same thing.  I'm always impressed by my classmates drawings and feel like I can learn a lot from my peers.  


OH, and totally unrelated to ANYTHING... my squirrel friend came for a visit the other day :)

spring weather: 1.. homework: 0

It has been so gorgeous out this week that I have literally put off homework to go outside and play volleyball 24/7.  I think that's why I'm a little bit depressed today, it's slightly cold/windy and cloudy outside and I heard it was going to snow tomorrow.  Definitely puts a kink in things. This week was a full week, which was nice, but it was also difficult because as I stated above.. I wanted to be outside the entire class period.  We continued to work on shoulders on Tuesday and Thursday was all about hands.  Although difficult and sometimes frustrating I really like working on hands.  I also liked how Amy ran class today.  It was laid back and we could each work at our own pace, but knew that we had to get at least two drawings done.  One drawing from the skeleton and one from the model.  Being a ridiculously fast drawer I whipped through those, so I dabbled a little bit on trying to map out actual little bones.  Overall I felt relaxed and productive, which is a nice change of pace from being stressed and overbooked.  I feel like my drawings turned out better because of this.

lacking concentration...

I wont lie, I would probably be more productive if I was out laying in a field somewhere doing nothing rather than sitting inside classrooms all day while it's GORGEOUS outside. This week was a half week, Tuesday was advisement day so we didn't have class. Thursday was pretty relaxed, we worked on some gestures then did an hour pose focusing on the torso, shoulder girdle, and arm.  I, once again, sat in a spot where I had a goofy perspective.  This is good because it tests my ability and makes me work on something that I hate, but it also frustrates me to no end.  I was actually flipping through my drawings and was feeling pretty good about my progression. Granted, I was looking through some drawings that I did last semester, but I can definitely see increased understanding just within my gesture drawings. I'm really eager to keep working on my skills and possibly branch out more.  Once I feel fully comfortable with proper proportion I would like to start abstracting my drawings a bit more.  I would also like to start working with india ink again. WARNING: bragging is about to happen :).  I had actually posted some of my work on facebook and someone saw it and put down an offer on the piece... over facebook. I was floored and very excited.  It's hard to sell the piece because I reallllllly like it, but then again, I am going to London and am funding the trip myself.. so I need cash, ASAP.  Buh-bye favorite ink drawing.