Lynden Grothe has a B.S. in Biology and is an aspiring BFA student

A self-proclaimed "science refugee" Lynden Grothe is now making time to do what she really wanted to do: art. Her drawing of a nude model incorporates the shift in thinking required of a budding artist. She is beginning to look at features in terms of proportional relationships, contours, and perspective. This new way of looking at the world has snuck into every aspect of her life. She finds herself looking at people and thinking about how she would draw them, examining the shapes and dimensions of their body parts.

Drawings, like this nude portrait, utilize shadows and negative space to define and shape the subject of the image, employing a "sort-of Gestalt Effect," which negates the purpose of the lines that Grothe plans on "cleaning up in the future."