For my self-portrait I tried to experiment with a facial expression that is not typical. This forced me to pay closer attention to proportions and the shifting of forms from the relaxed pose. I added the drawing of my face to the right to show the shape mapping in a generalized way.

This is an example of what I'd consider to be one of my gestures that best met the teacher's objective to focus on the true axis direction of the form rather than simply the outlines.

Final manikin project in full frontal view. The project involved paying a lot of detailed attention to layering of muscles in real space where proportions must be correct in order to proper build the whole form.

View of the back of the final manikin model

This is the final rendition of the manikin project depicting all of the muscles

This drawing is part of an observation session focused on drawing the human skull.

This is an observational drawing of a skull that was on display during class.

This is an observational drawing of hands made during class as we switched off between having classmates model and draw each other's hands