Return of the female model

Today we had the female life model to draw, again using pencil and charcoal. We did a series of quick 30 second poses, followed by a couple of no looking and wrong handed tasks and then some 30 minute poses. We finished off with two 5 minute poses. When I look back over my sketches throughout the weeks I do feel like I have improved. I now know how to set out my drawings properly to get the right proportions and angles, and I ave also found that I prefer the more expression are sketches as a posed to the more clinical detailed drawings.

30 second poses - looking at form

No looking and left handed sketches

30 minute pose in pencil

30 minute pose in charcoal

30 minute pose in charcoal

5 minute dynamic pose

5 minute dynamic pose

Life Drawing - Male Model

Light and Shadow using charcoal

Suggesting male form by drawing the negative space

Suggesting male form by drawing the negative space

No looking task

30 minute pose

Life Drawing with Light and Shadow

Today we worked with charcoal to create life drawings using the shadows to show the form of the body. I really enjoyed it and was pleased with my results. I think I'm better at the more creative and unusual pieces instead of the straight forward drawing of the model.

Warm up drawing with pencil

Shadow & Light with charcoal