To be honest, the original purpose for me to take this course is simple：I just love drawing. As animation student i already been through a whole semester of life drawing in year 1 and it was really a good time. Before i drew for interests and through first term of life drawing i learned to draw with certain skills. Therefore when i saw life drawing ware available as a elective i wasn’t even hesitate.

In this semester, the course focus turns to the anatomy studies which quit exciting for me cause drawing lower body was always a trouble to me  for year. It’s a great chance to get rid of it. Also i realized that my weak understanding to human body shape were seriously pulling my back while making animation. I definitely need a upgrade.

There were always challenges through this semester. In the beginning was to drew as a whole body. The most difficult problems from my understand was to hide my style. As mentioned in class the purpose of animation course is to help us generate our own style and life drawing was to study human anatomy in a object view. To draw what i saw rather then what i thought it should be. I really struggled a lot cause im doing the animation course in the same time, it always took me a while to switch between two mode.

In conclusion, after all the struggles of this semester. The out come is satisfactory. I tried my best and i do learned a large amount of new knowledge which i believe will help me through my career and life.

Unfortunately in this week i absented the class due to healthy reasons.

For the home, i choose one of the fashion illusion by Chicago fashion illustrator Julija Lubgane in 2019 < https://www.julijalubgane.com/fashion-illustrations-2019 >. I didnt add the original picture cause its not available to saved. Instead, I put a screenshot of the website.

I did two testing drawings which are the third and forth picture to simulate the style. For me the final result just reach the general standard. But ive tried my best.

In this week ive realized my insufficiency in anotomy and understand of the brief. I will keep tring.

After hoilday i found out that it tooks me more time warm up for unknown reason. But fortunately after i got the feeling of drawing again things works pretty well.

Also i ve successfully captured some of the clothing fetures. Although the skills are always needs to be improve. The achivements ive got this week are still satisfactory to me.

Basically my biggest difficulties are the time control which the situations in reality doesn’t always allows me to draw enough to 20 seconds so everytimes after i finished the drawings i will have to add some of the details from memories or even imagine.

This week as always im on my way of improvement.

I realized that are problems of my way of observation to anatomy. Therefore im trying different new ways.

This week i feel much skilled then before inclass. But i found the 30 seconds pose in this end of the class is quite challenging.

For the homework i realize that it is difficult to draw muscle group then a single muscle. But markers are still my personal favor. Therefore from next i will apply different media for separate parts of the muscle.

This week i can feel further improvement，more importantly i’d got more feeling in mesuring the legs length and position.

For the homework i keep testing the markers. This time i go with red and from my view it works better then brown.

I was in the hospital on Tuesday and after that the rest of the week goes pretty bad. But after two days of strugle at least im now neraly cured therefore im really looking forward to next week. Hope it can be a good one.

This week i felt a bit sick so i wasn’t pretty sure about what exactly i’ve done during the class. Generally, i got a hard time of tried to stop reoeatedly drawing messy lines and the outcome wasn’t quite satisfy.

For the homework i tried to express the muscle texture with some Markers just for experimentation.

As came to the second week i’m getting more and more familiar with drawing and felt much more comfortable and smooth in drwaing.

The problem is still as always the lower body but this time i can draw a bit better then before and problem became more specific which is i cannot measure the length of the legs especially the thigh and also the distances between the knees. To slove this i definitely need more practices.

For the homeworks i draw Tom and my roommate. I spend 2 hours on my roommate’s portrayal because he paid me to draw that. On the other hand, i try a style that i feel pretty interesting on Tom’s figure. I don’t really know if this style is good or not but for myself all i felt was just a fine exprience.