gladiators and naked ppl

Went to Kn@$s's workshop this weekend. It was so much fun...5 to 5.5 hours of straight drawing, with some notes in between (although they were brief) and he'd come by to nudge you about certain things on your composition and general drawing. He said that I am good at shape (which I thought that I was terrible at ha!..doing those Bargue things) but I should keep working on form. Then he explained it was not about volume, but about understanding which part comes in front of the other (like on the stomach, is the rib cage hanging over the creases on the stomach depending on the pose, etc). So spent some time and the Sunday workshop working on that. I'm working on balancing contouring with boxing things out and the shapes on the human figure these days (instead of just one or the other). We have a bunch of homework for next term (since most of us are coming back for the next term)...200 heads, and 200 expressions...I'm going to try to double that :) Oh, and a self portrait on m! t!erno paper. We shall see....