Life Drawing - (Week 3)
In this week's life drawing class, we used the 3 hours to draw many poses using differing amounts of time for each part. At first we were given a few minutes for each pose, and then 1 minute, then 30 seconds. In the last half an hour of time, we used nice brown paper with white chalk and charcoal, similarly to last week's use of black paper, chalk and charcoal, the paper giving us the mid tone to work around.
This was the final drawing of the session where we had 30 minutes to draw. I really like how the upper torso came out as I feel the shadows and highlights are done quite well there, except for his left arm where the shadows aren't really blended out enough and there isn't any mid tone left to give it any tonal gradation. The proportions of the legs compared to the upper body aren't very good, especially his left leg which is too wide, especially the line on the right of the calf, which should be further to the left. His right leg should also be angled so its coming out further up the stomach area. I also found it very difficult to draw the foot which you can see, as I had to keep redrawing over the charcoal marks that were already there.
These were the very first drawings we did in this class, and as you can see they show how out of practice I was in the lesson, as I was focusing on all the wrong things and spending too much time in my head instead of my hand. I do, however, like the lines of action in the bottom right pose, where although the drawing started to edge off the page, you can see the curves of the arms and the torso in the position ready to fight with the sword prop the model was holding.
This was the final drawing of the session where we had 30 minutes to draw. I really like how the upper torso came out as I feel the shadows and highlights are done quite well there, except for his left arm where the shadows aren't really blended out enough and there isn't any mid tone left to give it any tonal gradation. The proportions of the legs compared to the upper body aren't very good, especially his left leg which is too wide, especially the line on the right of the calf, which should be further to the left. His right leg should also be angled so its coming out further up the stomach area. I also found it very difficult to draw the foot which you can see, as I had to keep redrawing over the charcoal marks that were already there.
These were the very first drawings we did in this class, and as you can see they show how out of practice I was in the lesson, as I was focusing on all the wrong things and spending too much time in my head instead of my hand. I do, however, like the lines of action in the bottom right pose, where although the drawing started to edge off the page, you can see the curves of the arms and the torso in the position ready to fight with the sword prop the model was holding.
These are the 30 second poses where I used the time to try and get down the bare pose and the line of action, marking down the curves and angle of the head to get the emotions into the minimum number of lines.
This drawing was done in a way that the model was constantly moving, and we had to keep drawing him as he changed positions, all on the same podium. This produced a very interesting result that really shows a lot of different marks and body parts showing through.
For this drawing I had a bit of extra time, so I did a quick sketch on the right to try and understand the anatomy and where each part was placed in relation to each other, as well as the angle of the hips and the shoulders and how they effect the symmetry of the body and its curves.
This was my favourite of all the drawings I did in this session, as I think the proportions and the anatomy is much better than the others. I also like how I managed to get the angle of the pose into the drawing really well.
In these drawings, I tried to draw the body line in the bottom left drawing to help exaggerate the pose and the model's curves.
This is the drawing where I did the first base and then many of my fellow students drew over it, fixing the mistakes and adding details. This was a really interesting task to do, as we can sometimes see the mistakes in other people's work quicker than we can in our own - we learnt to fix our own mistakes by fixing them on others' drawings:
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