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MAA 1112: Drawing and Anatomy Continuing to develop the basic drawings course, students will focus on rendering life forms in space. Emphasis will be placed on the basic anatomical structures of human and animal forms.

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Week3: The Head and Torso, Skeletal quiz

3rd Week Quiz, Crit. Skeletal Assignment (Please arrive on time) The Quiz will look a little like image below (except the terms for labeling will be present). If you can name everything that has a line pointing to it, chances are, you'll be in good shape.
    
Lecture: Head & Torso, Weight, Mass, Volume -sculpting form. We will create drawings first using contours, but then switching to only depicting the "mass" of the figure by shading with the side of our conte.   

  
Lab: Practice painting volume/mass of model in water-media.    
Homework:
1. On Bristol, (graphite/charcoal) render a front or ¾ view of a Skull and neck from anatomical reference, then create face/head on tracing paper overlay from imagination or other reference. (Shaded for realism using the bones as structure beneath to guide you. Somewhat similar to profile in Simpblet, but reversed, i.e, skull and cervical (neck) bones will be underlying structure.) EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK:

by Hadidjah Chamberlin

by Matt Kies

 

2. Work on Midterm Assignment of Torso rendering on Bristol due 5th week. (See handout and Week 4 for details)In color, shading for volume and structure.
3. Simblet: (Head) Pg. 44-61.
Materials for next week: Basics plus toned/Canson and good drawing paper (powdered charcoal and newsprint will do). Blending stumps, kneaded erasers, sharpeners etc. Remember tracing paper.  

  

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