4 portraits

Complete at least 4 life size portraits

At least 3 should be from direct observation

No repeated faces

Use technique, color, composition, and value to tell us something about the person portrayed.

You can mix this assignment with the next week's four pair of hands assignment (draw 4 pair of hands from observation, describing an action).

List For anatomy research

By the end of the 4 weeks, you must bring to class the following life size drawings:

TORSO: front, side and back. Bone and muscle.

HEAD: front and side. Bone and muscle.

EXREMITIES: front and back. Bone and muscle.

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Anatomy Research project: TORSO

NOTE: this assignment will we graded at the end of the whole anatomy research project. You are encouraged to bring work in progress and questions to class, but you don't have to deliver each assignment every week ( the project as a whole will be graded in its due date: November 1st of the fall semester).

- Representational images of the requested anatomical features. This week: torso, front and back, bone and muscle. (torso will encompass clavicles, spine, ribcage and pelvis).

- Drawings must be life size. As size reference, use your own body. The image of the ribcage, for example, cannot be smaller than your very own ribcage.

- Information must be accurate: make sure to draw the right number or ribs, vertebrae and other parts.

- Use shading and color to describe roundness, perspective and difference of materials. You don't have to make muscles red, but it must be clear to the viewer the difference between bones and muscles.

- Use at least two references. You can settle for a composition or view out of one reference alone , but you must compare what you are drawing with more than one source to make sure you draw issues of topology properly.

-Make this assignment your own! Use different materials, colors, techniques and even narratives to present the information.

Memory Drawing

-Observe the assigned drawings for as long as needed in order to memorize the information.

-Cover the drawing and reproduce it in a new piece of paper or canvas, trying to make an accurate copy of it.

-Do not make up information! If you find yourself not knowing what to draw next, put the drawing tool down and look at the assigned drawing once more, for as long as it takes.

-The key to a successful assignment is to not cheat yourself! Commit to memory as much as you can, and then draw from memory onto the paper (do not draw while you look at the assigned drawing).

-Pay attention to proportions, anatomical information and movement.

The Figure in Space

-Illustrate an environment using perspective. Place in it a minimum of three figures in three different poses (at least one of it must be sitting or reclining)

-The figure must have naturalistic human proportions (no cartoons).

-Use real-life observational reference.

-The space must be descriptive of an environment: consider props, terrain, lighting, and other features that make your location feel believable.

-Consider the interaction that could exist between the figures. This is a great assignment to explore concept and storytelling.