We were introduced to the rib cage and the ab muscles this past week. We had to tape our charcoal to a pencil or paintbrush, and it forced us to draw lightly and slowly....I couldn't stand it. Hah. It helped with keeping our arms straight and all that stuff, but I did end up getting a good drawing out of it by the end of class, one that I was pleasantly surprised that I was proud of it, I thought (based on gesture drawings) it would look horrible.

But I found drawing lighter and then using the pencil to define the harsher angles and then going back and making the lines more organic. I definitely draw too fast though... Amy had the torso roughly done and thats it, I had the entire body completed, which can't be slow enough, hah.

It was really interesting how much the early plotting lines for measurement added to the drawing. I really like the look of it. How it's a finished drawing but you see all of the history with those measurement lines. At first I really hated the pencil being taped to the paintbrush but it helped my drawing technique a LOT. Plus I really like how lightly I drew... of course, me being me, botched it a bit by outlining, but I'm hoping SOMEDAY I'll get over my compulsive need to out line, so far this class has been helping a lot!

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I'll post the pictures this weekend, when I come into AA to finish up my contour shell drawing.

Here goes..