Youtube Gestures

So I went to visit CalArts last weekend and I was told that my portfolio was headed in the wrong direction and that I needed to change course, and really focus on my drawing skills. I'll make a post later tonight, or tomorrow, about my trip to Los Angeles. It's taken me awhile to make a post about my trip because of school and stuff lol. For the mean time here are some structures gestures I've been doing every day for an hour or two off of youtube videos, of dancers, figure skaters, gymnasts and MMA fighters, because I haven't had the chance to go to a drawing session since I've come back home. The photos are really bad because the flash was blinding out the lines of the drawings so I had to use no flash which made them a little blurry and gave them a yellow discolouration. By the way, the first, 3rd and 4th pictures are sideways and I can't seem to fix them, sorry:(. Just tilt your head.

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Life Drawings (September 3, 2009)

So yesterday at the drawing session I started off badly but I was warmed up pretty quickly. The session started with gestures, then we moved into 10 minute poses and finally 3 half hour poses. so on the first half hour pose I had started off with getting the gesture down with a yellow china marker (my favourite medium for life drawing) on a fluorescent green piece of paper. It was starting to look really awesome I thought and I was like wow this is starting to be the best drawing ive ever done. Then I realized how hard the light yellow was to see on the neon green, so I decided to go over it in red china marker so that it will stand out more. Typical of me, I had ruined the drawing because the traced red looked dead and lifeless D:< !!!! I always make decisions that I know deep down will look like crap but for some reason I do it anyways cuz im an idiot. I was really ticked off for the rest of the session because of what I had done lol. Then on the last drawing, I started drawing on a green piece of paper with (once again) YELLOW! turns out, its hard to see (who would think:O)! So what did I learn? I learned that I do not learn from my mistakes.
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I'm supposed to be going drawing again on Saturday so maybe I'll have learned from my mistake by then.