Oooh…
For the next part of this project, I’m supposed to do at least 20 of these little upper body trapezoid figures & the instructor would love it if we did 100-200, & honestly having done, um, 5 so far, it’s gonna take 20+ to stop having to refer back to the lesson to remember it right, I think.
They are NOT, however, very interesting to share, so I’m doing a post now to show you what I’m working on, and then…I am not going to subject you to the next three hours of trapezoid figures. :)
Also, I’m going on a week-long writing retreat as of Friday, and while I do intend to bring drawing stuff with me, I’m not sure how much I’ll get done, because the point of a writing retreat is, you know…to write… :) So it may LOOK like I’m falling off the art hobby horse, but I’m not! Not really! I just may not post much until I’m back from retreat and done with the practice for this section.
And while I’m on the topic of my art project…the instructor for this anatomy class is pleasant but very erratic. Clearly not scripted like AT ALL. Not rehearsed, even, even though the version I’m doing is apparently the NEW version of the course.
I’m not sure he’s a bad teacher – like, I think I’m picking things up and of course I’m maybe 90 minutes into a 50 hour course – but also I’m watching the lessons on 1.25 speed because he’s so erratic and all over the place that there are huge pauses in what he’s saying and a lot of “um”ing that comes out at about normal speech speed at 1.25. So that’s…weird…and sort of…I’m not sure I WOULDN’T recommend the course, although right now I’m not sure I WOULD, either (I’ll decide when I’m done!), but if I did it would legitimately be with the caveat that you should watch it at 1.25 speed, because wow.
BUT.
I just watched a video about how the instructor is taking a sculpture class & learned for the first time in his life that the waist is where the bellybutton is.
He’s a professional artist & didn’t know that.
Look. I …more or less… get men not knowing it, because of where their pants ride. I …might… accept women not knowing it, although I’d be surprised. But a PROFESSIONAL ARTIST should KNOW WHERE THE DAMN WAIST IS.
And the fact that he doesn’t is, IMHO, visible in his body-building. He does long torsos, which, legit, they’re hot, but the effect is basically “the waist is where men’s trousers are worn” which is the HIPS, these days.
Like he didn’t know why the Jim Lee X-Men wore their belts so high up:
Because he didn’t know that’s where WAISTS ARE.
So. Valuable for the practice and for ways of thinking about how I want to build bodies, but also, whooo-eeee. :grimace: