Throughout this quarter I wanted to get a better sense and understanding of developing my own general model and getting a better understanding of human anatomy in a drawing. Particularly, I practiced giving my figures a sense of life and motion, harnessed the gesture and used that to work into a more fleshed out figure drawing, and used drawings to tell stories. I've typically worked with my own stylized form of drawings, quite different from the more realistic and structured form of drawings found in this class. This made the transition into figure drawing rough for me, but I did manage to make headway in these practices. In this class, I practiced drawing in both a digital and analog setting. I found both benefited me in their own way. Digital allowed me the freedom to try again and again with particular models. While analog gave me the tactile sense of drawing that allowed me to better develop my drawing muscle memory.
I didn't know much about drawing the human body from a construction standpoint. I would draw what I saw rather than what I knew. I used a lot of scratchy lines to try and carve a form, rather than being deliberate with my line usage.
Here I have a much more developed idea and sense of the general model. I am no longer drawing from what I am seeing and using my mind's eye to better construct the figure. I am also using more defined and decisive lines to create the figure rather than guesstimating with sketchy lines.
I wasn't able to create animated .gifs due to a wrist injury I got early in the quarter. I was instructed to not be too concerned with the animated or movement driven aspects of the class due to my wrist injury. I have some images that capture a figure in motion, but nothing animated or strictly focused on the movement itself. I do have experience in creating animated .gifs in previous courses.