Week 12

 This Sketch took me 5 minutes and I believe it gives a fair example of posture and gesture of a human figure as you can see the curve of the spine. The weight of the body is focused on the spine as the figure is sitting down.

 This sketch provides a good example of gesture, the way the figure is sitting and how the weight is distributed over the left arm. I like this sketch as the gesture tells me the person is concentrated and is thinking. Figurative Gesture allows us to express ones mood whilst drawing a real life, and I believe this sketch does that quite successfully.

This is a 25 minutes sketch expressing gesture and pose. The gesture in this sketch gives a feeling of relaxation, as the figure puts his weight on his shoulders. This image is a good example of gesture and posture, it gives a good sense of life in the image just by looking at it and the posture tells us that there is a sense of weight in the figure.

Week 11

These two quick 2 minute sketches mainly focuses on the body twist and muscle contraction. Both the images were successful in showing that body twist however the right image hasn't got the right proportion as the arms seem too short compared to the rest of the body.

Here is another quick sketch demonstrating muscle contraction and body twist. The highlights made some of the muscles stand out; the triceps muscle, calves and the back muscle. It was a quick 5 minute sketch however it does give good depth of certain body parts.

This is a 15 minute drawing where I have focused only on upper body and the muscle and bone structure. it gives a good sense of muscle on the arms and chest as well as the abdominal muscle. The highlights on the chest allowed the ribs to stand out.

This Last drawing took me 15 minutes. For this specific drawing I focused on lower leg muscles, and this image was very successful in doing that as I have highlighted the calves giving it a good tonal value which made the muscle structure stand out. The shading on the foot allowed me to make the wrinkles more visible, this made it more obvious that it was the left leg.

Week 10

This quick 1 minute sketch represents Gesture drawing as to how the body parts move as the person keeps changing positions. I really enjoyed this technique as it allowed me to look at body parts individually whilst the person was moving giving me the sense of urgency. Even though the sketch is not very clear however it does convey the idea of movement.

I chose to post week 9s sketch on this weeks blog as it represents a sort of movement. This technique is called continuous line drawing which I believe is best for showing movement. Good representation of movement however this sketch failed to produce the right body proportion as the size of legs seem to be out of proportion compared to the rest of the body. I personally prefer this technique for loosening up my hands.

Here is a quick 5 minute Sketch of male human anatomy. What I like about this drawing is the body posture as it seems straight however the proportion isn't correct as the arms and legs are too short for the rest of the body.

This drawing took me 10 minutes. What I like about this sketch is the correct proportion of the figure and the shading technique used for the cloth as it gives a good idea of the material and the folds are quite visible. However there is a fault in the posture of this figure as the spine does not lie in the correct place and neither it meets the back of the skull. 

Week 9

This first drawing consists of 4 drawings a minute each. Despite the short time I was still able to represent skeletal and muscular anatomy of the figure. The drawings are successful in giving a nice sense of mass however it failed to illustrate the body proportions.

I chose to draw my own hand in these two perspectives to give a contrast between their volume from different angles. Both drawings give a good idea of muscle structure, however it fails to provide a good bone structure as the knuckle joints are in a straight line rather than being slightly bend. Each drawing took me 15 minutes.

This is a 15 minute life drawing of a human anatomy. The drawing is successful in representing a human figure but  the posture doesn't seem right as the derriere doesn't actually meet the spinal cord and also the body proportionality of the figure isn't correct as I made the thighs too long. Despite that the shading helped quite a lot to differentiate between the subject and the material. I used hatches and cross-hatches to get the right tonal value.