THIRTY.MINUTE.DRAWINGS.

I came into this class very excited to improve my drawing and quick sketching ability of the human body. I feel I have a fairly good understanding of basic drawing skills and techniques, but human body understanding has always been a struggle for me. Beginning with the gesture drawings are extremely benefitial because I think for a lot of people as well as myself, it goes against every natural feeling we have about our drawing. It limits us to such a short little window of time to capture an entire body gesture forcing us to quickly place our lines on the page as close to how we are interpreting them with our eyes. The problem is, often they don't turn out to be the work of art we are likely to proudly show off. But once this initial shock is overcome, the benefits become more apparent. I feel they have significantly improved my longer figure study drawings. I must say I was very surprised with the result of my first drawing (bottom of the four). I feel it is one of the stronger compositions compared to the ones that followed. I do feel that in the long run with the practice that we get in this class and my knowledge of the human anatomy my drawing abilities will continue to grow.