Anatomy Post 2

I completely forgot to upload the anatomy workshop images I took of the progress I am making with my model. We've had our last anatomy lecture now and I'm really going to miss them, I've learnt so much and Ron has been an amazing tutor, however we still have the model to finish and we'll be working more on it all day this coming Friday. I realised a few people have been adding their anatomy lecture notes to their blogs ... mine are a little too scruffy and only I can just about read them so I think I'll just keep them to myself, they will be very useful though!

I have progressed more with this model but I forgot to take pictures so I will make another post after the Friday session.

A mostly anatomy post 1

This summary is the culmination of the past three weeks, as with year 2 I chose an unfortunate time to move house (at least this time it's not on hand in day!), recent events have kind of forced me to change my dwelling as this current house has been affecting my ability to work, and my mental state hasn't been great here. As such all the stress from finding a place to now moving has really affected my ability to start working. Not trying to make excuses but it is what it is.

For the past three weeks I have been attending the newly put on anatomy classes and lectures with new tutor Ron Spriggs who I have to say is an amazingly patient and knowledgeable tutor, we are building a model comprised of wax, it's been a challenge as the wax isn't the easiest material to use, I have used wax before but this was a very different type of wax that goes cold very quickly so you have to be on the ball with it (and have very warm hands!)

Here is my progress so far:

It's been great to be actually doing something in uni apart from life drawing, I feel like I'm learning a lot from these sessions and makes me feel like how it was back during the easy years of Year 1. The biggest challenge here was overcoming my squeamishness (I still get a little scared of pictures of muscles oh dear!) This series of lectures and workshops will really help me understand the body and how to draw it, I normally don't really think about this sort of thing when I draw but now I have a better understanding of what the body looks like I feel my drawing will improve and will vastly change how well I draw my final images for this project.

As far as Project work goes I haven't really done a lot with it, again the stress of moving has really drained me of ideas and the only topic in my brain is moving. Hopefully with the actual moving date coming up my motivation will return. For now I will look back on my previous work and documents for BA3a and get some ideas on where to go next, I have emailed my tutor Nigel and await for some more ideas and feedback.