Review
Well, not quite sure how to start, so I'll start with the beginning. When joining this class I was fearful about what my capabilities were when drawing the human form. I did relatively well in the other drawing classes and drawing was pretty much why I got into art in the first place. I found that when I look back at my drawings from the beginning of the class and now I can take everything I've learned, which is quite a bit, and make the drawings stronger. I started out by just drawing the outline of the form and not even thinking twice about what make the form function or look the way it did in the first place. I can now see the model, see the muscles and think of the functions and that really helps me think of how it should look on paper.
The skeletal models are a totally different story. I feel that I am still struggling with them, and more than likely all of them are wrong. I find it very difficult to look at the book and put it on my own model. I really appreciate that the list of muscles we have due are pretty much in order to the way they go on. It's not an all around terrible thing to do, I find it relaxing but frustrating at the same time. I'm not the best at finding a second source to compare with since I'm confused right off the bat.
When it comes to the blogs, I try to keep up to date with the due dates. I'm better with the pictures we're supposed to post individually for homework. I'm terrible at posting comments and art related topics. It's not that I don't find this part of the assignment important, I feel very self conscience posting my work at the work I've done in class compared to everyone else's. Even this post might be read by somebody else and that makes me feel indifferent. I feel like I hold back with what I post and the things I say. I do feel that this is starting to make me open up and explain my work a little better than before. I find it easier to write about my work than try to do it in class and stumble all over my words in front of a group of people. The blog assignment has proved useful in other ways since I started to put my work from other classes in a different blog and have sent the link to a person who will hopefully hire me for an internship. I find it a really nice way to organize and display your work, especially for those of us how have no idea how to make our own website and beats sending a ton of files.
The skeletal models are a totally different story. I feel that I am still struggling with them, and more than likely all of them are wrong. I find it very difficult to look at the book and put it on my own model. I really appreciate that the list of muscles we have due are pretty much in order to the way they go on. It's not an all around terrible thing to do, I find it relaxing but frustrating at the same time. I'm not the best at finding a second source to compare with since I'm confused right off the bat.
When it comes to the blogs, I try to keep up to date with the due dates. I'm better with the pictures we're supposed to post individually for homework. I'm terrible at posting comments and art related topics. It's not that I don't find this part of the assignment important, I feel very self conscience posting my work at the work I've done in class compared to everyone else's. Even this post might be read by somebody else and that makes me feel indifferent. I feel like I hold back with what I post and the things I say. I do feel that this is starting to make me open up and explain my work a little better than before. I find it easier to write about my work than try to do it in class and stumble all over my words in front of a group of people. The blog assignment has proved useful in other ways since I started to put my work from other classes in a different blog and have sent the link to a person who will hopefully hire me for an internship. I find it a really nice way to organize and display your work, especially for those of us how have no idea how to make our own website and beats sending a ton of files.
posted by Melissa at
7:34 PM
1 Comments:
thanks, melissa. i think one thing you're writing about is true of a lot of students... of being self-conscious about their work and not necessarily wanting it out on a public blog. part of what i'd like students to understand is that it's okay to have the learning process out there as well as the final product, and to know that just because something is a beginning or a taking-off point does not mean the process is something to be timid about.
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