Sitting to Standing pose
Turning around pose
Drawing without looking sketch
Charcoal drawings
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Life Drawing class
Today was our second life drawing class. The tasks included 30 second sketches, sketching without looking (again..which I love!), Sketching 4 poses in movement eg. sitting to standing, turning around. We also did some larger more complete drawings using charcoal which was really good. Charcoal is a nice medium to use as you can create much of the form of the body by smudging the charcoal instead of drawing every line and shadow.
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
First Class: Life Drawing
Our first class in the Observational Drawing module was a life drawing class. It was abit daunting at first because I haven't done any drawing since college and I was worried was going to be rubbish compared to everyone else. But I was quite pleased to learn that the majority of the group hadn't done any life drawing before either, so I felt a little more at ease!
I really enjoyed the class as it made a nice change from sitting at the computer getting frustrated with software. We had a couple of different tasks to do including quick 2 minute and 5 minute poses, which were rather unsuccessful as I am not used to drawing so quickly. We then moved on to longer poses and also had a really difficult task. We had to draw for 10 minutes without looking at our paper, just looking at the details of the model. It was soooo hard not to look at what you were drawing and the results were hilarious! They looked nothing like a proper person, but they were quite 'modern arty'.
I learned a few techniques about measuring angles and lengths in order to get proportions right and I am really looking forward to developing my skills a lot more over the course of the module.
I really enjoyed the class as it made a nice change from sitting at the computer getting frustrated with software. We had a couple of different tasks to do including quick 2 minute and 5 minute poses, which were rather unsuccessful as I am not used to drawing so quickly. We then moved on to longer poses and also had a really difficult task. We had to draw for 10 minutes without looking at our paper, just looking at the details of the model. It was soooo hard not to look at what you were drawing and the results were hilarious! They looked nothing like a proper person, but they were quite 'modern arty'.
I learned a few techniques about measuring angles and lengths in order to get proportions right and I am really looking forward to developing my skills a lot more over the course of the module.
2 minute sketch
Early attempt
Failed proportion attempt!
Slightly better proportions
No looking task
First sketch with proper angle measuring
Last drawing of the day
Figure Drawing book I took from the library to practice with
(sketches will be posted)
No looking task advanced in Photoshop
No looking task advanced in Photoshop
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