GCA Blog: Workshop Week Report: Anatomy with Andrew Ameral

During our special workshop week (March 28-April 1) we all took a break from our regular schedules to focus on a particular area of study. While some students took Perspective with Sam Wisneski (see earlier post) and first year students learned about value with Tony Curanaj (post coming soon!) the rest of the group focused on Anatomy with guest teacher Andrew Ameral. Back by popular demand after last year's workshop week, Ameral came all the way from San Fransisco to share his knowledge and passion for drawing with us.

In the class, students drew from two live models - a male in the morning and female in the afternoon. After getting a basic figure drawing finished, students then took transparent velum and drew the skeleton over the figure, trying to understand how the bones would look in that particular pose. A third piece of velum was placed over that to draw the muscles. Each day was full of slide shows and hand-outs from Ameral to help further the understanding of human anatomy. Here are some examples of what the class was up to: