Strike a Pose

In this task we are required to strike a pose for 20 minutes for the others in the group and spend that time to do a more detailed sketch of the model. This practice has improved my ability of find the balance and where human's weight lies when they stand still. It also improve how I interpret a life drawing, which is from the whole body and work towards the details in each part of the body.

Like a Puppet on a String

Like a puppet on a string, we are supposed to express the squash and stretch of the body, producing a series of poses with each held for 10 sec. As for media I used coloured chalks, fine markers.Theses two materials are suitable for quick sketches like this, as it flows fast on the paper and create nice texture. I did the bottom one overlapping all the poses together trying to make the movement and the stretch of the body more obvious.

Rhythm is a Dancer

This requires us to show the flow of the body when making a continuous movement. I did both of these two set of sketches by coloured chalk, but some of the other ones in other materials as well.In both of the two our model made a turn around during the movement, which is a good example if we are presenting the flow of the body.I found it's very hard to capture the shape during only 10 seconds, therefore I used the simplest style I could.

Ah, Push it!

In our group we did two set of pushing poses, these are two of the sketches I did, both of them are pushing against the table, but one with the body facing us and the other one with back facing us. I found it extremely interested to observe the muscles of human body when pushing or pulling stuff. If in animation, the principle's of animation would be considered as well, such as squash and stretch when giving force.