... feet...

This week dragged. I hadn’t been looking forward to Spring break too much then on Monday I hit the wall. I was totally exhausted. But that’s life I suppose.

Anyway, art wise it was a struggle. Monday was spent on clay, doing the foot muscles.  This was fiddly as they were tiny and layered over each other. I had to redo them a couple of times because the foot was starting to look like a boot.  On a positive note, at work on Tuesday I drew a figure from memory using all the muscles and landmarks that I’ve learnt in class. And it was good! I guess you’ve gotta take the good with the bad.

We continued with feet on Wednesday, drawing only the main planes of the foot. I felt that it went ok. It was easier to draw the more complex positions than the normal angle of the foot.  Probably because the feet have very subtle angles … and are all too easily made into hooves. They are not great to look at anyway and my drawings did them no favors as you can see.

Friday’s drawings did not go according to plan. I was just as frustrated, if not more than those first few weeks. I crossed out more than one of my drawings and couldn’t stick to the subject. You can see my temper tantrum at the bottom.

I really tried hard because I know how important it is to get right. If you can’t get the feet right the sense of weight gets messed up for the whole figure. I can’t understand why they are so much more difficult for me than the rest of the figure. Usually I can get it if I can focus but not with this. Hopefully it’ll be better after a weeks’ break.