The figure drawing unit was personally the most challenging unit so far. Leading up to this final piece, the sessions of figure drawing were very confusing to me and I didn’t really understand much about how to draw the human form at all. I kept practicing and practicing but it seemed that the only drawings that I sorta liked were the ones that took a bit longer of time, the one, two and five minute figure drawings were essentially just scribbles of curves and poorly proportioned body parts. I did though, find aspects I enjoyed from my drawings that took a little more time. After the 1 hour session, I was semi-confident in the piece I had drawn. I saw that I developed the ability to get proportions a little better, and that I was able to shade and correctly add value around the model.
With this piece, and our past greyscales that we created, they were combined into one final piece.
I decided that the top row, my hand drawn values, looked like the cross hatching style of drawing and I thought that would be more interesting than the photos to use. In Illustrator, I made all of these into patterns then sheets of patterns to create the final piece. I also cropped my original image in to focuc on the upper body and top of the legs, because thats where I felt I added values best.
I think that I was one of the rare occurrences where I didn’t exactly like my drawing, but I really like my final project. I feel as if it’s very stylized towards what I was trying to achieve from the beginning, and I overall like how it looks a lot. I’m very happy with it.