Life Drawing Conclusion

The semester is over...and I have learned a lot. The first half of the semester was a lot of introduction to the body, the muscles, and how everything worked, which really helped me with my drawing. I avoided drawing the human figure at all costs before I came in to this class, but now I am looking forward to opportunities to draw the body.
This second half has seemed to be more on practicing and perfecting techniques and basic concepts. I have seen my line quality and variation get better, and I have also loosened up with my drawing and let it not be so 'perfect', like my first large shell drawing was. The shell was difficult because I do not usually care to draw on a large scale, but it helped with the contours and getting the line quality better. The introduction of the washes was a nice touch that really helped the shell drawings, but I wish we had time to do another in order to fix our mistakes from the first one.
Overall I really enjoyed this class and I got so much good information and practice out of it. My view of drawing the human body has completely changed and I am looking forward to do more figure drawings in future classes or on my own time!

Link to second half semester work images:
http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt147/BSoccer1030/FINAL%20LD%20blog/