Week 10: Figure. Basic anatomy and movement

This week’s session was an in-depth study of movement and pose of the human body. These three sketches were done in pencil and portray different instances of the model.
The first attempt was an experiment, it was drawn using the left hand which is not the usual hand I use to draw, but this particular trial was meant to understand the form of the human body differently and thus, ended up looking similar to a Schiele sketch, which I could not modify anymore.

The second image is of a pose with the back of the model facing the vantage point, which I believe stays true anatomically to the actual human figure. Since there were more dark tones, it could have helped to add more shading on most of the surfaces, besides the margins where light was barely slipping on the skin.

The third image portrays the model in a pose that required shape and size changes of the muscular system, the arms are stretched while at the same time supporting the weight of the body, if the balance achieved by flexing the heel and leg muscles would fail. There is a clear definition of shapes and anatomical accuracy besides the head which is small compared with the body; To add to this, the drawing could have taken advantage of more shading.