What I liked and Areas for Improvement

This is an early practice drawing I did to observe the boxes and their shadows. I felt that this was one of the more successful ones as I was still having trouble in observing the box shapes in the human body at that time. I liked how the shading shows a light source from the front, but looking back I think I shaded the left arm wrongly. I liked the way I conveyed the pose of the model, from the foreshortened arm to the overlapped, stretched-out legs, and think it was able to capture the feel of the overall pose. However, in this drawing, I think that I did not really show the tilt of the torso and pelvis that well, and it still looks a bit flat. Hence, I needed to work on visualising the boxes in a more three-dimensional manner.

This is a practice drawing I did, where I built on the box- structured drawing. I liked this drawing as I liked the way I drew the top half of the body twisting over the bottom half. I also liked the foreshortened arm at the back, giving the figure a sense of bending forward. In the beginning of this semester, I really struggled with understanding the way the ‘boxes’ move in space, and had a hard time visualising them. I watched online tutorials and followed them, eventually coming with my own approach on how to visualise and draw the boxes better. Hence I think that this drawing showed my improvement in being able to control the way the boxes turn along with the human body. However, I think that I can work more on shading, and adding more details to the face, feet and hands, to add more depth in the drawing, as it currently looks flat. I also didn’t really focus on the transitions in the body, like the way something overlaps another, and simplified the body, so it is something I needed to work on.

This is a drawing I did to practice clothing and learning how to observe the folds in drapery. I liked the rendering in the skirt, as I think it helped to convey the softness and flow of the fabric. I also got to practice my shading, and managed to create depth by varying the amount of pressure I used when shading. However, I think I could learn to depend less on the outline of the drapery (like in the hood of my drawing), and create the form of the clothing by shading more. I also think that I can work more on drawing hands, and not just the shape of it.

As someone who draws very slowly during model sessions, I have a lot of unfinished drawings where I left out an arm or a leg, as a result. However, I felt that the more I drew, I got a bit faster, so this is one of the more complete drawings that I had. Additionally, I was able to combine the previous two skills of visualising the boxes in space, and drawing clothing in this drawing, so it was nice to see that I was able to somewhat come up with a decent drawing. It was also encouraging for myself to see that I was improving, and able to apply what I learnt during class. However, I think I still need to work on details such as the hands, feet and face.  I also felt that I could have drawn the chair the model was sitting on, and the pole he was holding, as the drawing felt that it was floating in space, and not grounded. As I learnt later on, backgrounds and props are important in creating a scene in animation, so this is something I want to improve.

This is another practice drawing I did, in which I tried to focus more shading, and adding details to show the different layers of muscle in the body. I think I was able to capture the overall form and folds of the model’s skin. I also tried to spend more time with drawing the feet and hands. While I was not able to draw the hand clearly, I think my drawing of the feet was an improvement from my previous drawings. I think that I can still work on showing the muscles in the body more apparently, and studying anatomy more in depth, so that I can draw the body more expressively. I also want to work on increasing contrast in my shading, to make it more obvious, and help the drawing look more three-dimensional.