Hey All,
So my self portrait is done and ready to post.
It is under the Long Drawings Set.
Here is the link to my final Life Drawing Portfolio!
Hope you Enjoy!
Chelsey
Friday, May 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Final Portfolio Post
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kosmatkac/sets/
Here is my Final Portfolio! Enjoy!
p.s. The Self Portrait will be added soon~
Hello All!
Wow this semester has gone by SO incredibly fast!
I can't believe we are in the final days of Spring 2011.
So for this final post I need to reflect on my semester in my Life Drawing Class.
Here is my Final Portfolio! Enjoy!
p.s. The Self Portrait will be added soon~
Hello All!
Wow this semester has gone by SO incredibly fast!
I can't believe we are in the final days of Spring 2011.
So for this final post I need to reflect on my semester in my Life Drawing Class.
Life Drawing this semester has been the ultimate experience for drawing. I have learned so much, not only in drawing either. I have gained knowledge of the body and muscles that I was never aware of.
Learning to draw a human form in 3D is certainly difficult. But for those who want a challenge, this class is totally worth it. Amy, our professor, is the sweetest person, but she does grade tough. She bites the bullet if she sees you not working hard. Although, I do have to say that I almost depend on her feedback since she is so helpful.
For someone thinking about taking this class, I would have to say DO IT! If you like to draw and you enjoyed Drawing 1 and 2, then this class is great. However, the drawing we do in Life Drawing is nothing hardly at all like the drawing you do in Drawing 1 & 2. The approach is totally and completely new and different. You are learning about basing your drawings off of wireframe techniques and learning to draw contour lines instead of shading.
The class starts off with gesture drawings, learning how to draw the body, inside out basically. You learn to draw the ribs as an egg, which is weird at first but after a couple of weeks, it becomes totally natural. Then the spine and hips are added in. They look like sophisticated stick people when you first start, but it gets better!
Then we start to draw long poses, this is the tough part. Drawing the object, or in this case, person in front of you is difficult especially when you’re brand new at it.
Trust me, you get over the “naked” part of it a couple of minutes into the class.
The hard part is to make the drawing look and feel 3D. This is where contour lines are your best friend. They reveal show much more detail than just drawing an outline of your figure.
Overall, this class is challenging but it is good to know to learn how to draw something in line and not depend on the shading. At the end, such as in our self-portraits, she lets you bring it all together and add minimal shading. You go through a lot of newsprint, but I thought it was worth it.
Thank you for viewing my blog this past semester!
Hope you have a good rest of the year.
I will probably be putting this blog under construction to link all my profile “stuff” together. See you soon!
Chelsey Kosmatka
Friday, May 6, 2011
Almost There
Hey Everyone! (p.s. I know this is a little early)
Wow, and here we are, at the end to another great semester. This semester has been such a learning experience, not only in this life drawing class, but in my other classes as well.
This week in Life Drawing, we worked on our mannequins and then on thursday we did a long pose, attaching all the parts of the body( including the face) together.
I am so glad we worked on our mannequins on Tuesday. It really helped to have Amy come around and tell us exactly what was wrong with our mannequins and what we could do to fix them. So, she met with me first. I was happy she did this because it allotted me almost two and a half hours to get the refinements finished on LeRoy.
He is now finished and I completed photographing him last night. He looks pretty spiffy if I say so myself. The muscles on the mannequin really helped over the past semester in learning what exactly is under that skin. Although, I must say carrying it around campus just was a hassle, but it did give you a lot of attention.
As for the long pose, I think I did okay. I am not sure that the face really goes with the model. If you'd put the model next to my drawing you'd never guess they were the same person, unless he is naked and you examine the body type. Overall, it was a good challenge. I think pulling it all together is the ultimate "end" point that Amy wants us to be at before we leave this class. I am ALMOST there, but I still do need to work on the face a little more.
Next week is Finals week and we will be presenting another online portfolio on Flickr. So, keep checking back to see the final drawings! (as well as finished and polished LeRoy!)
See you next week! (for a final time in the class)
Chelsey
Wow, and here we are, at the end to another great semester. This semester has been such a learning experience, not only in this life drawing class, but in my other classes as well.
This week in Life Drawing, we worked on our mannequins and then on thursday we did a long pose, attaching all the parts of the body( including the face) together.
I am so glad we worked on our mannequins on Tuesday. It really helped to have Amy come around and tell us exactly what was wrong with our mannequins and what we could do to fix them. So, she met with me first. I was happy she did this because it allotted me almost two and a half hours to get the refinements finished on LeRoy.
He is now finished and I completed photographing him last night. He looks pretty spiffy if I say so myself. The muscles on the mannequin really helped over the past semester in learning what exactly is under that skin. Although, I must say carrying it around campus just was a hassle, but it did give you a lot of attention.
As for the long pose, I think I did okay. I am not sure that the face really goes with the model. If you'd put the model next to my drawing you'd never guess they were the same person, unless he is naked and you examine the body type. Overall, it was a good challenge. I think pulling it all together is the ultimate "end" point that Amy wants us to be at before we leave this class. I am ALMOST there, but I still do need to work on the face a little more.Next week is Finals week and we will be presenting another online portfolio on Flickr. So, keep checking back to see the final drawings! (as well as finished and polished LeRoy!)
See you next week! (for a final time in the class)
Chelsey
Monday, May 2, 2011
F.A.C.E
Hello All!
The facial structure is EXTREMELY frustrating when you have no idea how to draw it. Since it was my first, relative, time drawing the face, it was so confusing and frustrating. I literally stood in front of my drawing for 10 minutes, figuring out where I should start. We had previously learned how to draw separate parts of the face and then she would tell us how to approach it. However, this doesn’t work when drawing the whole face. I had no idea where to begin, and which part to draw first. I think I still need to connect the dots, relating each part of the face to something else. Such as your ear is about as long as your eyebrow to the bottom of your nose. This was a cute but helpful tidbit of information that helped me proportion my drawing. Amy did help me create the oval/egg shape of the head once I had started on the nose. I need to of course work on proportion and drawing LIGHT. But until I learn to actually put something on the page without any help, I’m putting the knit-picky things on the back burner. 
This next week we are finishing up our Mannequins (i.e. LeRoy). Then we can start working on more long poses in which I will be concentrating in the face mostly. I will be doing this because we also have a final assignment. Our final assignment will be a self portrait of ourselves. I am unsure on how I feel about this. I will let you all know how I feel when I actually start drawing myself.
This week in Life Drawing we started a very exciting chapter. THE FACE!
The facial structure is EXTREMELY frustrating when you have no idea how to draw it. Since it was my first, relative, time drawing the face, it was so confusing and frustrating. I literally stood in front of my drawing for 10 minutes, figuring out where I should start. We had previously learned how to draw separate parts of the face and then she would tell us how to approach it. However, this doesn’t work when drawing the whole face. I had no idea where to begin, and which part to draw first. I think I still need to connect the dots, relating each part of the face to something else. Such as your ear is about as long as your eyebrow to the bottom of your nose. This was a cute but helpful tidbit of information that helped me proportion my drawing. Amy did help me create the oval/egg shape of the head once I had started on the nose. I need to of course work on proportion and drawing LIGHT. But until I learn to actually put something on the page without any help, I’m putting the knit-picky things on the back burner. 
This next week we are finishing up our Mannequins (i.e. LeRoy). Then we can start working on more long poses in which I will be concentrating in the face mostly. I will be doing this because we also have a final assignment. Our final assignment will be a self portrait of ourselves. I am unsure on how I feel about this. I will let you all know how I feel when I actually start drawing myself. Until Next Week,
Chelsey
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