Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Pelvis
The area of focus for this week was the pelvis. It's a little bit more difficult than the rib cage to recognize on the model, but it's been awesome to see our drawings progress into figures that look more like humans. When the model does a more intricate pose, it's definitely easier to imagine what position the egg would be in than what position the pelvis is in. Although both the rib cage and the pelvis are vertically symmetrical, the pelvis looks much different in the posterior view from the anterior view, so that makes it more difficult to draw as well. Now that we're adding more components to our drawings, some of the poses that were easy to draw a week ago are now becoming a lot harder to draw. You really have to think about whether you're looking at the anterior view or the posterior view of the pelvis, and whether the left hip is higher or the right hip is higher so the perspective doesn't look distorted. Now that we've added another element to our drawings, we have to think about how both elements relate to each other. We're looking deeper into proportions and how the rib cage relates to the pelvis in different poses. I've struggled a little bit with getting the pelvis to be the same width as the rib cage, but I'm starting to become more consistent in my drawings. I really enjoyed doing the longer poses this week with the pelvis added in because we're able to add in the different muscles of the abdomen, so it just makes the figure more interesting and fun to draw. I've been trying to remember to exaggerate the curves and lines of the body so that my drawings can be more dynamic, but I've been having trouble with drawing the rib cage tilted in one direction and the pelvis tilted in another. Like Amy said, it has to be kind of like a zig zag, which is what I'm going to keep in mind throughout this next week of drawing. I'm not really sure what we'll be focusing on for this upcoming week, but I'm sure it will be great! I love this class so far!
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Megan,
ReplyDeleteAt the time I remember freaking out about the pelvis. It was so foreign to try and add the pelvic bone into the mix!
It wasn't until today that Amy mentioned to me the whole "zig-zag" thing. So now I am going to try and keep that in mind as well. It's interesting to see how much of a difference it makes.
Your optimism is refreshing to read! Usually people are really skeptical and exhausted with art, so it's nice to hear that you are enjoying this class as well.
For me I still find it more difficult to draw the rib cage than the pelvis, because I have such a hard time visualizing the position the the rib cage and the shape. With the pelvis I always know where it is on both models because I can see it threw the skin and that is why I find it less of a problem to draw than the rib cage, however I'm sure that I would not be saying that it was easier if we were making drawings of it from the skeleton, then I believe that it would be very difficult, like you said because it is completely different looking from the front to the back. Another reason that I think that the pelvis is easier to visualize is that I know that the anterior view will be a u shaped line and the posterior view will be a triangle with added arches for the crest and knowing these two shapes I just adjust them to be in correct perspective and they are finished. As far as the rib cage I find it so difficult because for one you can not really see where it starts inside the model and depending on their pose it is often difficult to see where the bottom of it is and when drawing an egg shape from different perspectives the shape changes so subtilely.
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