Muscular anatomy

              Lately I've been working in Mudbox on the anatomy of a human skull and muscles. Here is a model of a head and muscles that I modeled on top of a pre-made skull file that Mr.Cornell gave me.

Shapeways Project

This is the project I ended up doing for Shapeways. I decided the way I wanted to go was in creating a cool sculpture. I was originally just going to do a vine like pedestal for the yin yang but throughout the project it took a little bit of its own direction and I ended up doing more of a half mechanical, half vine-like/ nature pedestal in order to try and incorporate the idea of balance into the sculpture.

Shapeways Mind Map

This was the mind map that I did for Shapeways and that project. The wording may seem vague in some boxes but I mainly just try to use phrases or words that will jog my memory of what I was thinking about.

Starting Mudbox

So now that I've been trying to work on proportions and faces I am moving into using Mudbox to make a skull that appears anatomically correct in as many ways as I am able to portray. At the same time I am using the tablet for the first time to model. The picture above is how far I got in one sitting looking at a few reference images and I am not unhappy with what I have accomplished. But now I need to really get some stuff done in class, especially now that I have work most days after school so the time and energy I have is going to be cut pretty drastically.

Outside Project

This is just something I really enjoy drawing in my free time. I like the style and just the overall drawing style. Where I originally got the idea was from Japanese style tattoos that I really liked and tried to mimic the style and drawings.

Snake

In this drawing(which I have only begun) I am going to attempt to take the skills I have learned over time and from my face drawings and apply it to something very unrelated and see how well these skills apply to it as well as just trying to get some variety in my drawings. I do get bored only drawing faces you know!

Another face

I again tried to apply the skills I had to create a completely different face from a different angle, and with a little more character. There is definitely still room for improvement in many areas such as the lips( ignoring the non-anatomical/ face additions such as the hat and monocle) but with every drawing a further understanding is built and stressed for accuracy.

Further training in faces

I looked online for a tutorial in eye drawing to bring out more realism in my art, and after I had created the eye I used what I learned and applied it to the knowledge I had before and drew the rest of the face. I feel like I quickly progressed with the help of better pencils, a shader, a looking for an outside source of skills I did not contain.

First attempts at face drawing

This is a look at how some of my face drawings this year began. In my eyes I show only basic skill and understanding of  proportions and facial features.

Diggerbot finished for now

I Finalized my modeling and texturing for this project