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