I took two Life Drawing classes at EMU. Typically, we worked from models in the class, or had homework assignments to work on self-portrait drawings. But at the beginning of each semester, we had a different type of assignment - to find an anatomically correct image of a skeleton and a skull (from the front and from the side) online, and to copy that image in pencil. The professor was usually against working from any sort of picture (even our self portraits were required to be completed from looking in a mirror, rather than from a picture of ourselves), but made an exception for this assignment.
The goal of such an assignment is obvious - to familiarize ourselves with the underlying bone structure of the human body so that we could better learn the appropriate proportions of different body parts. We would then theoretically use this knowledge to better our "from-life" drawings in class. We were instructed to label the skeleton and skull with the proper anatomic terms.
Here are my drawings for this assignment, which I did with a 0.7mm size mechanical pencil on large 18"x24" white paper. (Both drawings are from 2007.)
When I took my second Life Drawing class in 2008, I repeated the assignment (though this time without the scientific labeling). Here is my side-view of a skull - this time done in charcoal rather than graphite pencil.
The goal of such an assignment is obvious - to familiarize ourselves with the underlying bone structure of the human body so that we could better learn the appropriate proportions of different body parts. We would then theoretically use this knowledge to better our "from-life" drawings in class. We were instructed to label the skeleton and skull with the proper anatomic terms.
Here are my drawings for this assignment, which I did with a 0.7mm size mechanical pencil on large 18"x24" white paper. (Both drawings are from 2007.)
When I took my second Life Drawing class in 2008, I repeated the assignment (though this time without the scientific labeling). Here is my side-view of a skull - this time done in charcoal rather than graphite pencil.
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