This week in Life Drawing we began an in depth study of the spinal column. But before we began the study of the spinal column, we singled out one body part and drew contour lines to form the shape of the body part. At first I had a little trouble with this task. This was because we had to draw very slowly and concentrate on just one body part instead of the whole figure. Although I struggled with this at first, I began to understand the importance of this assignment. It helped me understand the curvature of the form and learn where the bumps and indents are located.
After a couple sessions of these contour drawings, we began to study the spinal column. To learn the ways that the spine moves, we drew just the line of the spine on the model. We did this repeatedly for a number of different poses. Drawing just the line of the spinal column got a little tiring, however I did begin to understand how the spine moves and the curves it made through the different poses. After drawing the spine so many times, I am very ready and excited to move on to other parts of the body.
Our assignment over the weekend was to form the muscles around the spine out of clay on our plastic mannequins. These muscles included: the spinals (cervicis and capitas), Longissimus (capitals, cervicis, and thoracis), and Iliocostalis (cervicis and thoracis). I enjoyed building these muscles out of clay and learned a lot about the anatomy of the spine. Over the next couple of weeks we will be building the muscles around the mannequin, muscle by muscle until we have completed all the muscles in the body. At this point my mannequin looks like this:
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