My Third Life Drawing

After my two failed attempts at getting the proportions correct, our teacher introduced us to a new way of looking at the subject. He taught us to only use lines and no ellipses, to calculate limb sizes. I was a bit wary of this at first and could not create the whole subject using a combination of different straight lines that linked different limbs to eachother, although some areas did add up, when everything came together it did not look how I intended it to at all.

Second Life Drawing

This was my second attempt at life drawing, as like before I managed to get the subject to fill the whole page but I still did not get the limbs the right size, however they were slowly getting there. Big problems with getting the size of the calves and thighs correct arose as I wasn't looking at the subject enough and used the wrong calculations.

First Life Drawing Picture

This is my first life drawing, immediately you can see how I got the proportions wrong between the limb sizes. I did however manage to fill the whole page, but the calculations I used to create the different limb sizes were all wrong.

Roland Barthes quote

In front of the photograph of my mother as a

child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder,

over a catastrophe which has already occurred.

Whether or not the subject is already dead, every

photograph is this catastrophe.”

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

This quote reveals how a photograph of someone expresses the inevitability of their death. This analysis interests me as I began to think, is it possible to sum up one persons life in a photograph. So as a result you would hold their life in your hands and alleviate the shadow of death out the picture. I realise that as I will be creating a self-portrait it would be impossible to display my future life in the photograph. However, all I can really express anyway are the views of myself from birth to present. So, if I can do this, maybe it wouldn't be so inappropriate to conclude for myself what I believe my future life would be like. Now although this would be 'my life' from the eyes of me at '18', it would still be more informative than one picture.