My 'second' spring break.

We have been making a lot of progress in my drawing class. We finished portraits a long time ago and have moved on to the human figure. First we started with the skeleton.

This is an ink drawing or really an ink painting. It's huge; somewhere around 27" x 30". It started out as a line drawing in graphite and then I painted/hatched ink over the graphite filling in the value.

Now we are working on muscles studies. This is a "flayed" figure drawing: a drawing with no skin so the muscles are visible. We had to use muscle diagrams in order to fill in the muscles (after all, our model still had his skin on :) ). We aren't allowed to use shading or value on these drawings, yet, so the muscle fibers act as a the value and provide extra movement to the figure.

This weekend I went to Virginia Beach with my family. It was wonderfully relaxing and I didn't get any work done (much like a second spring break).


Here is the family on the beach. It got much colder so we had to wear sweaters and jackets.




We found a poor dead bird on the beach. It was lying in such a poetic pose that I felt compelled to take a picture of it.

Finally, here is something I drew in my sketchbook. Normally when I'm at the beach I draw pictures of mermaids and beachy things, but instead I drew elves and woody things. Maybe I didn't listen to enough summer or seaside music. Oh, well.