This week during class, we focused on the Hamstrings. Monday, we worked on building the muscles with clay to learn the shape and form of the hamstrings. Then, Wednesday we drew for the entire class, putting everything together that we have learned so far; the spine, the rib cage, the pelvic bones, the thigh muscles, and the hamstrings. I really enjoyed being able to draw this much of the body. Its definitely refreshing to draw this much compared to the beginning of the semester when we were just allowed to draw the spine.The drawing on the top left was a 10 minute pose from Wednesday's class. It was really nice to have a pose from the back. The curve of the spine was very recognizable, which made placing all the rest of the bones easier. The drawing on the right was a lot more difficult for me. The model was at an angle that made drawing the pelvic bones a lot more challenging. Since she was not at a straight side view, but slightly turned, I had to draw two planes of the pelvic bones. At first I didn't even realize that I had to do this, but after getting help from Amy, I was able to understand exactly what those bones were doing. After I was able to understand this, everything else fell into place; the sacrum, the rib cage, and the then the thigh muscles.
As difficult as you said it was to draw the figure on the right, the pelvic bones look really good! Thats not an easy angle to draw from, especially when the curves on her hip cover up any bone structure for guidelines. I agree thats its nice to be able to draw a more complete figure now that we have been learning more parts of the figure, we've all come a long way from the spine!
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