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Life is infinitely strange and I think that we all might agree on that but unfortunately there is no predicting what is going to happen next and it is a beautiful but often frightening thing. Lately I have been confronted with people who are in the same boat as me, first I picked up one of best friends and the party seems to keep growing until now it's relatively the size of a cruise ship. Now, these things that we are dealing with are anything but fun and they are put in our lives in order to teach us lessons, in order to help us grow, within ourselves and in our relationships with others. It's often hard to take a step back from difficult circumstances and praise God for putting them there but sometimes the only thing that you can do is step back. In the midst of the world's despair there is still peace, there is still hope with every sunrise and very few people stop in the middle of their lives hustle and bustle in order to realize this truth. Anyways, so that was a random lead in that doesn't really lead you in to my life drawing overview. This week in life drawing we worked on developing the body as a whole and getting everything into our 30 second gesture drawings, and man o man was that tough stuff. Okay, so I know that we have been doing it for awhile now and I've been really working at it but I just cant seem to get it. (ps. I will get pictures of my drawings up as soon as I can get my darn computer fixed) Okay... in the middle of the week we did long poses where Annie posed with her arms up so that we could practice the curves of the armpit and see how the shoulder muscles came together. I thought that this practice was really fun and I actually thought that I was doing quite well until I took a look at everyone else's drawings. I'm beginning to feel kind of like a broken record for saying that and recognizing the fact that I really need to start improving. Though I did make a change this week and went from lead charcoal to graphite and from standing to sitting down, I found that drawing is a lot more painful for your shoulders when you're sitting down. I did like the change to pencils though because I think that it helped quite a bit with the line weight and the sketching of the figure. At the end of the week class got canceled which was a blessing in disguise because I was able to finish applying my muscles and got to go home early to my dog who was thrilled. Also, I found that these muscles were difficult because I wasn't sure exactly how they connected under the shoulder and the books are often hard to follow. I hope that you all had absolutely wonderful weeks and weekends and I will see you bright and early.