Art Metals

These are some earrings that I made in my art metals class. They are made from shower curtain rods. I cut the circular balls off of the rods, and then cut the rods into these shapes you see, and soldered them all together. The top is nickel wire wove around the top of the rod, and then the balls are strung on the wire, and the earring stud is placed on top. These pieces were difficult to make because the balls are made of some type of metal that melts in really low heat, so they kept deforming, and I had to sand them down back into their original circular shapes.

Placement

The main idea I had to keep in mind with this drawing is to make sure and keep the head and neck in line with the spinal column. I had to make some pretty large adjustments regarding this issue, the main one being the placement of the head. The hand was another main focus here, since it was the most foreshortened point in the pose from my angle. Again, I was making body parts, particularly the arm too long, and had to shorten them in order to create the full effect of the foreshortening.

Point of View

This is another drawing focusing on the foreshortening. I still need to work on making the foot in this drawing not as long, which was my main general problem in the whole foreshortening process. There was also another trick I was taught during the process of this drawing. As you can see, the place where the upper thigh meets the pelvic bones may look a little off. From my exact viewpoint, the two ends weren't touching, but that made the drawing look off, so Amy told me that in a situation like this I can move slightly in either direction so I can either see the two ends meet, or see them farther apart to where it doesn't look so peculiar.

Focus on the Feet

The focus for this class period was foreshortening. This was a very useful practice for me, and I feel that I got a lot better at it after the class period was through. This drawing may look just like another one of my regular drawings, but I took a different approach to this one. Instead of mapping everything out really quickly, I really put all my focus into getting the shapes of the figure exactly how I saw them, and this really helped my drawing to look like the real figure I was depicting. The feet, especially the one coming towards the viewer was especially hard for me to draw, and it took a few trys before I got it right, but this only taught me how to look even closer and find the negative spaces. I also concentrated on my line variety, giving the picture more depth as well.

Male Model

During one of our class periods we had Ashley, the male model pose for us instead of our regular female model; so this is the first drawing I have while look at the male figure. It is quite a bit different looking at the male body as opposed to the female body. One of the main differences I found was that it is a lot easier to depict the muscles on the male figure, since they are a lot closer to the surface compared to the female body. This made the leg muscles (the focus of this drawing) a lot easier to locate and draw. The trouble I had with this session was the pose that the model chose. It was a very ambitious pose, which I applaud him for, but since he was balancing his weight on the stick he was using as a prop, his pose changed quite a bit, making it hard to continue drawing for the amount of time given.

Skeleton

Here are two drawings that I did focusing on depicting the bones of the skeleton. Our focus this week was on the pelvis and thigh bones, that is why there is a second drawing with a close-up of these features. The first drawing I focused on getting the shapes of the bones correct, and then on the second drawing i tried to make the drawing look more complete by using different line thicknesses and adding some shading. I feel that the shading really helps to bring depth to the picture, which makes it more interesting to look at. I enjoy drawing the pelvic bones on the skeleton. I find that they have a unique complexity that the other sections of bones lack, making them interesting to both look at and draw.