This quarter, I was only able to attend one life drawing session due to complications with my set work schedule, but still benefitted greatly from being exposed to such a great resource on campus. Before this quarter, I had heard of mysterious mentions of a free life drawing session held at some point every week on campus, but never saw much advertisement for it around  besides word of mouth. It was a bit intimidating to explore art at the college outside of the confines of this program, but felt freeing at the same time. During the class, I was free to apply techniques of rendering and composition learned through workshops in the class without the pressure of feeling like I had to preform these skills the “right” way. It also gave me more time to work with a live model without tight time constraints, or a certain goal to accomplish by the end of the session. I attended the session later in the quarter, and although I wish I would’ve found away to use it to my advantage during the figurative work in week five, I was glad that this practice was fresh in my mind while I worked on my final project. My final project does not necessarily include human figuration as a subject, but I feel that the practice still applied when understanding the anatomical structure of the skulls. I attended the session on Wednesday, November 14th, 2018. Here are some examples of the work: