Thank you so much Joanie - gosh this must be such a big job for you!!

About your first question... seeing you put a LOL at the end of it I think you already have the answer!!

And yes,you are right about the shoulders. That is something I have to do something about... they keep coming out like that so something must be basically wrong with what I'm doing.

Thank you once again - you're wonderful!

Martina - I'm so sorry about your dog and the hard time you're having. There must be something in the air lately! Hope you'll find time to join us at some point.

Awww Martina, I am sorry about your dog. I hope the best and hope to see you around soon.

Painter, I will will work on my trapezoids some more. I love the way you decided to grade each persons drawings, that is sooo cool. I also am sorry I have gotten a little behind with my daily drawings. I made this deal with my girlfriend last week that we would take turns on Tuesdays and Thursday watching each others babies to get a break alone for a day type thing, well she finally got a job she has been desperately looking for and now I have two babies a day. LOL (good thing I got the major majority of the first lesson done!!) But I will do 3 days of gesture drawings today, I swear!!

You know awhile back ago, I went to figure-drawing.com, they have ebooks that you can purchase to help with drawing and I found one that was a complete gesture pose reference book. I mean any position a person could be in it has in this book. It was published in 1907 and somehow I downloaded it onto my computer and forgot about it and when I went back to the website I saw it was like $2.95 to purchase the download. I tried sending it to you becuase I thought you could use the material but it is 17.14 mb and my email wouldn't allow me to send it to you. I can't even send it to myself in email to download it to the other computer!! (Thats where my burner is, and I thought about burning a copy for you and sending it in real mail). If I figure out how to get it to my other computer I'll let you know.

Ohh and I wanted to say you are doing an awesome job with the class and much better than I could possibly ever do!! Thanks!!

Here are my final exercises for this week as far as posting goes. Sorry for the jittery effect of the last one. I'm hopeless drawing with a mouse but I thought this was the best way to do it for our purposes. The pics are scans from magazines as you suggested.

I hope there will be no equivocation about what everyone is doing with their hands this time!

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Hi everyone,

I'm sorry, I'm really far behind with this. I am going to try and do some of the exercises tomorrow. Sorry Teacher No apple, I'm afraid

You are all doing really well and I must admit I am quite intimidated by it all, but I'll see how it goes tomorrow and hopefully post something.

Andrea

Rose and Shutterbug, excellent job to both of you. Looks like you are getting the basic principles down pretty well. I have just been doing the basic forms instead of the learner methods. I think I need to be practicing them alot more. It just seems easier doing it without them. So here are mine for the past few days.

I have not been able to finish all the exercises as of now but here is what I have....I hope to finish the rest of the exercises soon.



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Hey everybody! I haven't posted anything yet, but I'm working on it. When I was a little girl my Daddy used to call me "the cow's tail" because I was always trailing behind!! I'm afraid that's what I still am; it has taken me this long to figure out how to download and print my lesson!!! My daughter has a softball game tonight, but I will try to work on it anyway. I'll do better next week, Elizabeth

Thanks Tim...I know what you mean....lol....keep it up though my friend I think your drawings just get better and better!

Joanie thanks for your comments, and your efforts are very much appreciated....I am proud to be one of your students.

Martina sorry to hear....we miss you too! hugs , Brian

wow what fantastic results!!!! great job everyone, i hope to post mine tomarrow--finish up this evening. had to work alot alot of hours this week and not done yet. but great job everyone keep it up
Lori

Hello Cynand Venus thank you for your nice comments

Joanie I agree with what has been said already....you are doing a wonderful job and it is much apprechiated. I like the way you have put all of the pictures with the critiques in one post!

With the previous two drawings which I posted earlier and the following in this post I think I've got all the weeks assignments completed. For some reason the loose gesture drawings were the hardest for me to do.

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well here are some practices that i have done so far. i need more practice but pretty proud of what i have accomplished so far. plan on practicing more tonight and tomarrow.
Lori

My lessons from yesterday and today.

Judyvan

Hi

Here are my exercises for today.

Rafael

Hi Joanie,

I'm sorry to say that I think I've probably got too much on at present to put the effort it deserves into this class. You have done a fantastic job on the lesson and I will watch everyones efforts with great interest.
Perhaps, I can join the next class if things are a little quieter!
Thanks again.
Andrea

Hi, here's what I have so far, I'm still working though . Elizabeth

Ok here are my practice exercises for today. I have been practicing by doing the gestural poses of my figures without the proportion guides. I don't know if the measurements are right or not but if you think I should add them Joanie, Let me know and I can go back and add whatever to them. Thanks.
I love this class by the way and cant wait for week 2 lessons!! When are you sending them?

Here are my figure drawing that did .


sorry there so late

I love this class too. But, alas, I have Rose's flu and can't sit up more than a couple minutes. Maybe I have spring fever or something. Anyway, I am trying to sit up in bed and draw as I can. I am gone on week ends but I will be home this week end. Maybe I will be able to catch up by Sunday..
Have fun ... I am going back to bed now..

P.S. I don't have magazines to get pictures from and I am too sick to surf the web and download stuff right now.. I guess I am going to fail the class.

Great critique, Painter girl...

OK, here are my magazine figures, that one was fun! Of course, if I was having fun, I probably didn't do it right!! Elizabeth


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Sorry I'm so late. It's been a busy week. Here is all I have so far.
Everybody is doing such a great job. I hope I can keep up.

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My lessons for today.

Judyvan

Here are some more things that I have done

Hi Everyone!

I would like to make a reminder to all.

Please keep your pictures 200kb

I have been keeping track of who has sent what and some of the things required are missing. You should have at least these 5 things sent to me and/or posted by Saturday night. If I don't receive them all, I'll not send the next lesson.

A FIGURE DRAWING - before starting the lessons.

Trapezoid, Oval figures, triangle method.

Cylindrical figures

Some Gestural Drawing

Magazine Cutouts with markings.



MY COMMENTARY: So far, only 2 people have totally completed their exercises and tomorrow night is your deadline. This tells me that there are a lot of people signed up who are not going to continue. Which is fine with me. I will continue the class as promised. My personal feelings are that I do not feel that these lessons are very hard but if you do not have the basics, you will never learn it. If you were to take a life drawing class, you would be asked to do all that and more in a one hour lesson and I have given a week. This tells me the interest level is low and the class is not what everyone thought it would be. I would very much like to hear some feedback on this so that I can adjust whatever needs adjusting. I will continue with the classes until the end for those that are participating.

Thank you !

P.S. JUDYVAN - you're inbox is full and I couldn't send the email address where to send your drawing to.

I've enjoyed looking at everyone's drawings. Very nice. I was never good at figure drawing. The lesson was way more than I expected, in a good way. I hope to impove Thanks!

here is my magazen homework for the lesson

Hi

Here are my exercises, I do not have magazines but I cut this picture from newspaper.

Rafael

Please excuse any uploading errors. Newbie here. I had some trouble figuring out my profile and getting set up.

joan i know that i have a few more to do--i think two more and a few more to post. i have been working 10-12hrs a day for the past 6 days, which i did not know when i signed up for the class. i do want to do the class--i am working very hard to get everything done and posted. its not that i am not interested, i am very much, and by the participating in the classes that i have been in should also show my dedication. i am running on 3 hours of sleep a night, i really appriciate your and venus hard work on this class i am working hard to get this done because i really want the next lesson. it just hurt my feelings that you think i dont want to dedicate to this class, or do the work because i do. i have been here for a long time now i thought everyone knew how dedicated i am and willing to learn. sorry if i have caused problems or upset you in anyway. thanks
Lori

When I was in Chem II in college, we got to a part where some bonds would form while others wouldn't. I had a terrible time remembering which was which because I didn't understand why this would happen. I found I just had to force my way through this portion of the class. That's where I am with trapezoids and triangles.

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Here are the exercises for lesson 1.
I also did some in my moleskin book which I carry around with me all the time.
I like to try the capture the moment when I am on the bus or in cafes.

Hi all,

this has really been a fun learning experience for me. I really admire every one's talents.

Cyn I think you are an ace at this....hope your feeling better...so what if you get a little behind...I don't think Painters Pickles will come after you...lol Get well honey bun..ch.

My drawings for today ...and having a little fun with this one.

I love your magazine cutous!!! You are too funny!! Elizabeth

here are my lessons finished up for the week. i did gesters real loose and did not erase at all. hope i did them correctly
Lori

Here is the magazine cutouts.

I had to ask the teacher what I forgot to do so far so I am submitting my magazine practices. Other than that waiting for part two of the lesson.


I also wanted to wish all of the mommy's here a..........Happy Mother's Day!!!!

Here's my magazine exercises. I used my new wacom tablet i hope that's ok.

I think i've completed everything?

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Brian - I thought I was gonna wet my pants cause I was laughing so hard when I saw Tweety - way to go!! that was great.

still ROFLMAO

OK, hopefully late is better than never -- I'll repost the ones I posted earlier for convenience.

Gestures done a while ago to try to get a certain pose down. Then trapezoid people, then contour drawings, then some with other methods such as triangles and cylinders.

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Drawovers of some pics I got from Macy's and inmagine.com (I have no magazines around). Then, the guy at bottom left holding the basketball, in process -- started with a simplified skeleton as in the lesson, then added the flesh and erased the underdrawing. Needs to be refined further, then the clothes and other details added.

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Brian Brian Brian ...have you no shame LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

That was very funny


Jack ...love the eraser bits

Hey!!! I thought I was the class suckup!!! Brian, here I started off giving her an apple, and you butter her up with that halarious Tweety, no fair!! ::pout:: Just kidding...hehehehe

Please tell me what I am still missing for this first lesson. It's really hard to concentrate when I'm, laughing so hard at Brians Tweety.. Gotta love ya, Brian..

The first figure is the one I did and put away the first day..

hears mine for this weeks exersice 2 was hard one cos it hat to be newd i reail enjoyed it


i thourt that cut outs was optinal

Thank you for lesson 2 and all the hard work you are doing for us. Happy Mother's Day.

Judyvan

Hi Everyone - I've finally gotten a chance to look at all of your drawings. Everyone did a super great job on them - I'm very pleased. Hope you don't find your Lesson #2 so challenging.

I would like some of you to rework some of your drawings though and there were a lot of the magazine cut outs that could use some improvement. I would suggest that you keep trying at them, they are great practice. It seemed like some of you could draw the basic trapezoids, ovals etc. but when it came to identifying their angles on a magazine picture you seemed to be confused with the angles.

So here goes:

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Hi Everyone - I've finally gotten a chance to look at all of your drawings. Everyone did a super great job on them - I'm very pleased. Hope you don't find your Lesson #2 so challenging.

I would like some of you to rework some of your drawings though and there were a lot of the magazine cut outs that could use some improvement. I would suggest that you keep trying at them, they are great practice. It seemed like some of you could draw the basic trapezoids, ovals etc. but when it came to identifying their angles on a magazine picture you seemed to be confused with the angles.

Some of you have drawn some nice figures, but they don't really show me the method that was used to get them drawn. That is mostly what I am looking for.

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Congratulatons to all for passing Lesson #1 !!!!!

Ok, Mrs. Painter, Since I was one who just did the figure drawings and no measurements then I will use the same pictures I already drew and put their measurements in for my weekly practices this week. Ohhh ueah, and why was Brian the only one to get an A+????? Maybe I will try Betty Boop if he doesn't beat me too it..LMAO.

Okay Painter......I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the A+.....lol...glad to see my Tweety got a chuckle I see where I went wrong on the others...thanks Joanie.


Nice try Venus...but Tweety made teachers pet...lol..

hihi. a bit late, but here's the homework for lesson 1. was procrastinating in getting a scanner.. and finally figured out how to use it it was a challenge to try these but fun. can't wait for the next one

Brian - LOL - I just had to give Tweety the A+..............LOL I just couldn't resist it, sorry Venus LOL But everyone did get stars! hehehehehe

Venus - your drawings were really great - just need to know how you did it that's all.

I noticed a double post on the critiques.......could one of the mods delete the short one? .....I got knocked off line while I was posting and I guess it caused a double post. Also it caused 3 names to be skipped, I will repost them.

thanks,

Joanie