Here are two of my drawings from week 2. The one on the top is the first cross contour drawing I have ever attempted. It took a few minutes of studying the figure before I could decide on where to start. I finally decided on the middle area of the back and worked from there. It seemed easy enough once I got started, which gave me confidence for our first shell drawing.
Unfortunately, I had an extremely difficult time with the shell, maybe because I was expecting it to be so easy. I mean, the lines were pretty much there already, how hard could it be? I became very frustrated very quickly. I tore up several sheets of paper (wasteful, I know), took several breaks, even tried working from photographs of the shell but every time I started the drawing looked flat and wrong. The bottom drawing is what I ended up with hours later. It is not too impressive, but it was honestly the best drawing that I ended up with. After Amy told me it was a decent start and gave me some pointers I was a bit less discouraged, and I am actually looking forward to trying this again when we get the larger shells.
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