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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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Week4: Head, Hands and Feet-Structure, Proportion and Foreshortening

Lecture: Quick crit. of Skull/Head & Neck. Head, Hand & Feet, structure, proportions, foreshortening. Shading, building form through structure, trapped shape , using toned paper as middle value for volume shading.
Lab: Practice with model, looking at Traped Space (image immediately below) and Drawing from the Torso Sculpture (next image below), and then looking at foreshortening (3rd image below):


Image by Hadidjah Chamberlin


Image by Matt Kies


Image by Matt Kies


Homework:
1. Finish Midterm assignment: Rendering of front and back views of Head & Torso (from head to mid-thigh) in color on Bristol (or WC paper), labeled: One side of each showing inner muscle structure, the other side of each, showing outer flesh. Label according to handout/lecture notes. Labeling may be on tracing paper overlay.(Note, Simblet does not go far enough! Use other reference(s) as well. EXAMPLES OF STUDENT WORK:


Image above by Matt Kies


2. Study for Midterm labeling Exam: Full skeleton & major front and back torso muscles.

TERMS FOR LABELING:

Sternomastoid
Trapezius
Deltoid
Pectoralis Major
Rectus Abdominus
Umbilicus
External Oblique
Serratus
Latissimus Dorsi
Biceps
Triceps
Gluteus Medius
Gluteus Maximus
Illiac Crest
Teres Major
Teres Minor
Infraspinatus


3. Turn in 8 ½ x 11” paper portfolio with copies of first four major assignments (Bones, Skeletons, Skull, with Face, Midterm Torsos and one drawing from each week in-class model session.) in plastic sleeves and any extra credit or re-do work.
5. Simblet: pg.194-218.
Materials for next week: Good drawing materials for Midterm rendering, including good drawing paper/Bristol/toned paper/Canson, all sharpened charcoal pencils, including white, soft vine charcoal, drawing boards, etc. Tracing paper essential! (Limited palette color optional.)


  

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