TEN and FIFTY minute poses

Well, I wasn't sure

which pose was "the" 10-minute, so I just put up 2 of the ones that were before my 50-minute. When compared with Amy's drawing, my drawing seems much less planned and plotted out. Also, my atmospheric perspective is pretty good but isn't quite there yet. With Amy's drawing, it seemed very light, which makes sense considering in order to draw a figure, you should make sure you have the proportions and angles correct before you realize that its entirely wrong when you are done with the drawing. I'm not saying that mine are that bad, but that is one thing I will try to be more careful on, going from light to dark, not the other way around. Although I did put in some cross contour lines, they don't really seem to connect the forms on the figure to one another, but rather help to outline single forms.

I notice that I tend to have a darker outline on my figures which helps me to see the angles and perspective, but I should be more careful about outlining and just try to draw whats there. In terms of line variation I tend to have

the same line width in half the drawing and a different width in the

other half, but I think my line variation is improving
somewhat from drawing to drawing.

This is my 50-minute drawing and quite a difficult pose for me to draw I might add. At first you might notice that I attempted at drawing in the rectus abs on the laying down figure. I also included pelvic landmarks on both drawings but my rib cage landmarks were a bit weak. As far as the anatomical landmarks go, I think I did a pretty good job of maping out the points on the pelvis and bottom of the rib cage, in order to indicate the navel on the figure.

In the 50-minute drawing, the line variation and atmospheric perspective is much more planned and consistent throughout the figure. In the 10-minute drawings there doesn't seem to be a very good line variation which makes the figure a little more flat in space. In this 50-min drawing, the contours on the face, arms, and legs are nicely defined and help to push the curves of the figure around and back in space. This drawing feels much less coloring book like compared to the two 10-minute drawings that I did earlier that day.

Now, lets talk in terms of Composition how well the drawings look. Starting with the 50-minute drawing, I oriented my drawing surface to a horizontal plane so that I could extend the figure out into space more, with less restrictions on space while trying to draw the entire figure. The actual picture is zoomed in, but when zoomed out you would see that my figure sits nicely on the page but is a little bit small. This small thumbnail may seem crowded but that is not so on the original page that I drew this on. There is a nice relation with the negative space and the figure. You can see the taller negative space on top of the laying posed figure in the upper 10-minute drawing, which creates a much needed feeling of weight for the figure instead of giving it a feel as if it was floating in the middle of nowhere.

In the 10-minute drawings, the figure-ground relationship is pretty well reconstructed and the angle seems realistic to how the figure is positioned. The taller figure is oriented vertically while the laying down figure is oriented horizontally.

That's all for now.