How I Spent My Summer Vacation

I took two figure drawing classes back to back, 6 hours straight, four days a week or seven weeks plus sketchbook assignments for homework.  I very quickly got very sick of drawing and redrawing the human form and studying anatomy and physiology and stressing about how to accurately accentuate the acromion process and other nit-picky overly analytical stuff.  But, much to my chagrin, all the hard work paid off in the end.

I started the class at this level:

And ended it here.

I'll post more about some of the techniques I learned in my grueling crash course later on in the week.