Midterm Review

Congrats everyone on making it to midterm!
I posted my pics at flickr, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/akibaboy65/sets/

Now as for my review, it's been an interesting semester so far. There's been so many things that I've had to approach differently when drawing in this class. For example, I like everything I do to look finished, therefor I always want to make a darker line, and seal off a certain edge, in order that a piece looks finished and presentable. I'm seeing that this is not to way to approach Life Drawing though. There's always more time that can be spent on an area, bringing it to life in a greater amount of detail.

Secondly, my entire career here at Stout has been chalked full of professors who say my work looks too cartoony, and that I need to pay more attention to the realistic side of what I'm seeing. That said, the best drawings I feel I've done in Life Drawing are the ones where I am taking what I'm seeing and exaggerating it almost in a animated fashion. By bringing out certain muscles and expressions, I feel I get a greater sense of the 3D nature of the human form and the strength behind each muscle.

I look forward to practicing more and more, because I've already started to use these concepts in some of my illustrations elsewhere.