This week I did really tried to connect my forms. Mattesi observes that Michelangelo had a great ability to draw anatomy as groups of muscles and bones that harmonized one with another. Many artists draw individual muscles and structures great but fail to see them as a whole and how they relate one to another. By drawing through the subject I was able to better connect my structures and feel more rythym in my drawings.
Another great help was to look for the "D" shapes. Mattesi suggest as an excercise to cut out a D-shaped piece of paper and place it on your drawing surface. He instructs you to then draw the figure around the D. This excericise to help you find the most major force in the pose. While I did not use the cut paper, I did begin every drawing today with the letter D and was amazed at how quickly I was able to make sense of the gesture on my paper.
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