This week was the big week of midterm portfolio presentations. I actually found the portfolio creation to be quite an enjoyable experience. It was nice to get the chance to document all our struggles and accomplishments to gain a better perspective on our work. I also really enjoyed viewing everyone's portfolio and was interested to hear what other students had to say about the class this far. A lot of people admitted to struggling at first but now have noticed a great improvement in their drawing abilities. Difficulties with mannequin construction seemed to be a pretty common complain throughout the class. Amy gave us a few resources to check our work with and gave us a chance to redo some of our leg muscles. In class, we are concentrating on longer poses now to really focus on creating correct perspectives and proportions. I find myself still struggling with line variation, but believe my proportions are improving ever so slightly with each class.