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Okay, so these 6 weeks were the hardest of my classes so far.  The deadlines were hard to reach, and I felt like I was competing with some really talented artists.  I wish I had this website when I had been in the class so you could’ve spent time with me as I went through, but oh well.  I have to say I learned A TON in this class.  I’ve always been interested in the human body, but never the details. For example, I loved studying how the body would be shaped in an odd pose, but I wouldn’t pay attention to how the hands were.  Even in my figure studies class at CFCC, I put the finer details of the hands and feet last.  I also learned a lot about having good quality pencils, using my negative space, and what the difference between a regular #2 pencil and an artist’s pencil. Here’s my assignments from start to finish.  It’s a lot, but I want you to see it from beginning to end.

This was a timed assignment on proportion.  Not one of my faves.  I have a very sketchy style, lol, I had to work on cleaning up my lines.

Up till this point I was still using a regular #2 pencil.  As you can tell, I hate drawing detail in fingers…

Slowly, I was being forced into cleaning up a little bit and paying more attention to detail.  Assignments were still timed, but a bigger time amount was allotted.

That was the first series of timed drawings.  Took quite a lot of time to finish.  This is the next series:

After this, we started prepping for our final assignment, which was a self-portrait.

Quick timed portrait of one of my bf’s, Ryan! <3

I PAID ATTENTION TO FINGERS AND TOES, YAY!

This is the rough draft for my self portrait.  I wanted to do something different than the norm.

Here’s the final draft and last assignment for my figure studies class, phew!