CLASSMATE PORTRAIT - EMILY

This is my friend Emily, who I drew on the first day of drawing class. No, she is not asleep - she was actually drawing someone else and was looking down at her paper. Looking at this drawing a few weeks after the fact, I can see where my facial proportions went awry. Well, a lot of proportions are off, but the hand stands out as oddly small and the nose stands out as oddly large. Sorry about that, Emily! Still, I like this drawing. I'll just have to remember in the future to box everything out before even thinking about details. I like how her hair came out, though - she had it in this bun thing and I was like "well, that's going to be impossible to draw" -  but it came out nicely.

PROFESSOR - INTERIOR

Dear God, where to begin. This is my professor, Judy Rifka, who posed for the us during the second week of drawing class. I like to refer to this drawing as "Rifka Crying Tears of Blood," due to the unnecessarily dark spots I put under her eyes to simulate the shadow emanating from her glasses. The rest of the drawing gets worse from the neck down - her shoulders are too beefy, her arms are enormous, and her legs just came out terribly. Again, I rushed into details before boxing out the proportions of her body. You can't expect to get anything better than this if you don't follow the proper steps. The ONE thing I like about this drawing is her left collar - somehow, even though I suck at crosshatching, that one 3 square inch of page came out very nicely. And it was totally by accident <_<.

BAM

YEAH, that's what's up! This drawing didn't come out half bad. We were supposed to draw our own hands, holding something. I grabbed a paintbrush. Looking at it now a few weeks later, some things become glaringly obvious that were not that way when I was looking at my completed drawing. First of all, the paintbrush is a little on the small side - it was bigger than that. I mean, it's not TINY, but it's off somehow and I can tell the difference. Again, I rushed into detailing the brush itself before making sure it matched up with the hand. Also, my middle and ring finger are wonky. Especially my middle finger - it sucks that I can only see this now, but it's true. Although I do like what I did with the inside joints of my fingers, I wish those two came out better. What can I say? My hand was in a pretty weird position, it looked unnatural to begin with. All in all, this one of my best drawings, though.