I thought I might like this whole clay muscle thing, but it turns out I absolutely hate it.  It was really frustrating for me to build the muscles on what they were supposed to look like and I struggled quite a bit.  I feel like the whole thing doesn't look like it's supposed to and I am having difficulty getting the clay to actually stick to the mannequin.  I hope it gets better from here because this is only our first clay assignment and I have to do the whole body.  I am going to make this entry short and sweet because I am only ranting and I do not want to do it any further.  Until next time.

it's my very first life drawing experience!

This first week has been kind of crazy for me and I found out I have a lot of learning to do.  Amy was right when she said line drawing was a lot harder than any shading.  I used to think I was a pretty decent drawer but I am finding out I am struggling with this kind.  The full body pose is one of the first gesture drawings I did, which I found out wasn't really a gesture drawing at all, and that makes me laugh a little. I am starting to understand that I have to focus on the way the core of the body curves rather than just drawing and outline of what I think I see.  Hopefully next week I will have better examples of that because I am still working on how to do that.  

The other two drawings are my first contour drawings and I can tell I have a lot of learning to do on them also.  The one of the arm is the first one we did in class and I made the first mistake of drawing the outline of the arm before I started so it already started looking flat before I even began.  No more outlines for me!  One thing I really liked about doing this kind of drawing though is that it makes me really look and the forms of the muscle and pay attention to how the body really is.  

We all got shells to take home and continue to practice contour drawings and it was kind of fun for me.  I can tell I already improved a lot more than the one I drew in class.  I think I could push it a bit more with making it more 3D, but it's way better than I thought it would turn out.  After doing these it makes me appreciate so much more what other people can do.  I can't wait to be able to do some talented work in here and to be able to figure everything out!  Even though I am still frustrated that I don't get it yet, I love the class and am excited to figure out more.  

...and we're back!

I am excited to say this is my very first blog I have ever done before! 
I am a graphic design student and am actually graduating in December, a date that came along really quickly.  Life drawing always made me a little nervous because I do not really have any experience with drawing people, but I guess that's what the class is for right?  I am interested in the new technique of drawing because I tend to draw everything really

realistic and really have good line quality.  I hope to learn

how to expand my art styles on incorporating more of the contour lines in my designs.  

I wish I had earlier examples of drawings I had to show what kind of style I draw in, but the examples I have here are from my classes last semester.  The top two are for an advertising campaign for a company called Long's Horseradish for my advertising class.  These are only two pieces from that campaign, but the idea was expressing the intense taste that horseradish has.  The other two pictures are from my photography class.  Both are a collaboration of images put together to create an interesting composition.  I have a really wide range of styles I use in all of my work so I want to be able to put some of my drawings in my graphic design work as well.  Its been a few years since I had a drawing class so I am a little hesitant on what is going to happen but overall excited for this semester.  :)  I am overly excited to be back at Stout!!