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Final Reflection

This is my final project for Life Drawing 1
As you can see it is a Portrait of myself drawn with contour lines.
Overall I'm pretty happy with it, I know its not perfect but I feel
I have improved since my previous portraits in the past.


This semester I have seen what it takes to draw structurally to achieve a certain form. The more I draw the more I start to notice planes and how the lines create space within my work. I believe this class has really opened my eyes to how things should be drawn correctly. I feel I have achieved success in just understanding different approaches to take when drawing something three dimensional. I can definitely see this paying off when drawing out product designs in the near future.

The learning of the human body's anatomy was also a cool part about this class. It really made sense when we started to draw the separate parts at first when it came time to draw the whole picture in the end. The live models were also a great bonus to use during class. I was great to see the person right there and learn how to capture their image on paper.

The set of skills I acquired in this class are many. My art of mark making skills has improved in my drawings. I am a heavy handed person. I like to see thick outlines on objects and figures, but i continued to learn to see the true beauty of things when the line weight has a light feel to them. My lines as of right now are still heavy but have been getting skinnier and lighter throughout the past few weeks. I have noticed my lines have change a lot during the quick sketches of the models that we have been doing throughout the semester.

Since the mid term I have continued to learn more patience and to slow down my drawing. I have been putting the line down correctly more times at first instead of scribble it down and search for the right one. My forms and proportions have been quite better due to I now know what I'm looking for to achieve three dimensional objects on paper. Such things as looking for certain muscle groups or spinal shape of the models has improved my overall drawing greatly.

With my chosen field of Industrial Design, I believe i can greatly benefit in the future from taking this class. I can now freely sketch items quickly for concepts and ideations with confidence. I also have the knowledge of creating the human form for use of applying ergonomics to products and structures for use by humans. The overall time spent sketching in class has reopened my passion for sketching and drawing. I want to design for the greater good of mankind. I think knowing how the human body is built and having the knowledge of how to draw it correctly and integrate it in my designs,will greatly pay off for me in the future.

Last day in Class drawing

On our last day in Life drawing class we had a model to draw.
While drawing this model I wanted to capture an image I could use foreshortening in.
I have a hard time at angles that require foreshortening so I went with the ones you see here.

Face drawing during class

Just had a couple of drawings i did during class of a face i thought was cool looking

Life Drawing Skulls Assignment

Here are my skull drawings for the class assignment.
I really enjoyed learning how to draw these and want to keep practicing and keep up at it and get good!

Some Scribbling thinking about my Portrait

I was drawing and sketching and came up with this last night while i was bored working on some other homework. Thought id share!

artist that have

Artists that have influenced me or have caught my eye for awhile have been M.C. Escher due to the complexity of his work and skills, Keith haring due to the crazy little men and glowing babies drawn in subway tunnels, Shepard Fairly for amazing stencil and graffiti work, also Banksey for more amazing stencil work, Ansel Adams for awesome scenic old school photography and Im sure there is many more but this is off the top of my head as of now that i enjoy viewing over and over again.

Right now

Right now im in the middle of molding game pieces for my Design Theory and Methods class.
I had created them in the first place in the program solidworks and then had them rapid prototyped or 3d printed.
It took almost 6 hours to get 4 game pieces printed out. My problem was i needed atleast 30 of each piece for the game.
So i decided to start casting them and mold them out of polyester resin. I have close to thirty hours put into these pieces with the amount of design time, making molds, failing at making molds, spilling resin, and waiting for dry times close to 2 hrs a set. So this has totally ingulfed my life since last week after i got the 3d prints back.

Ink wash/shell drawing

Here I drew a shell and added a ink wash to it. If i were to do it again, i would draw it alot larger and go more intense with the ink and make an overall composition out of it.

This week eyeballs

This week we started to draw eyeballs and noses of the face. I found it quite difficult to accuratly draw an eyeball. The nose was also pretty hard and awkward to draw.

Drawing Skulls

So last week we started learning how to draw skulls. I enjoyed seeing ways how to draw and develop 3d resemblance of a skull using contour lines and structure.