Mannequins and Skulls

Oh, sculpture and drawing.  I never managed how tired I would be after each of my studio classes.  I find that I'm more tired after drawing studio.  How's that possible?  All you do is stand and draw, right?  That's exactly why, all we do is stand... and draw.  It's fun and relaxing but I'm not use to standing up that much.  I guess you can call me weak.  One of our recent homework assignments was to take a drawing we did in class and finish it up at home.  Here is the in-class drawing I chose to finish:

I had seen this exact same mannequin in student drawings from last semester.  I have to say she looks better in the drawings than in real life because a few of her features are only painted on.  Like her eyes, for example.  This makes it really hard to draw because we are only using line, no values allow.  Paint and the likes are not in the linear plane (only if there is a thick amount of paint that creates a three dimensional form that you can touch).  But that is not the case so we can't draw her eyeball only the bulge of her eye.  Skulls are always fun to draw.  I still need to spray fixative on the drawing so it won't smear (because I used charcoal).  But I can't do it outside because it's raining right now.  And I can't do it inside because the spray gives off toxic fumes.  Can't spray outside, can't spray inside.  That's a good one m'lord.