Life Drawing Final

That was certainly a beneficial life drawing course. It was good to be stretched to use artist materials I usually might shy away from to see what I can actually achieve with them. Also just to look closer at the model and think about ways to approach them that I hadn't touched upon so much before. I'm a bit reluctant to go back to sitting down, just drawing in a little sketchbook with pen and pencils now... but we'll see what I can find next.

Week 9 - Oil Pastels

I was sceptical of using these pastels after some rubbish attempts a few years back, but actually I didn't find them that bad to work in!

In this picture the page was halved and we could only draw half the model. We then turn the paper over to do the next half, meaning we had to try and remember where we drew the other parts (which could test how accurate we were being with measuring). Mine almost looks like she has two heads; she's certainly fatter here.







Week 10 - Moving and Wash

There's probably a bit of repetition with images in the next few images. The model walked around and we had to draw his poses fast.







Quick sitting down and getting up poses.







Finally, we used a pencil and ink brush that could be dipped in blackened water, as well as a wax crayon. The once black water dried quite a lot, unfortunately, so I'm left with the wrinkles!



I hope those who looked, found these artier life drawings of interest!

What shall I put up next? Watch this (blog) space.

Penultimate Life Drawing

For the current course, that is.

Oh look, I've been co.uk-ised.

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Week 7 - Watercolour

Three basic watercolours mixed to create tone, etc. A crayon was used to define certain parts. Rather enjoyable.

Week 8 - Pen and Conté

A simple blue pen used to draw the figure trying to draw only with straight lines.





Here I used Conté, possibly for the first time. Rather like charcoal but with more variation.

I'm Afraid So...

I joined a portfolio styled site as an add on so some of my work can be seen more easily than scrolling through the blog. As soon as I get more on that I will link it.

I've been trying to do some experimenting with Photoshop lately, including making a picture in a kind of 1930s Japanese Art Deco style (specific, I know), so if I am pleased enough with any of these attempts, I might plop some on here soon.

Anyway, along with the usual:

Week 5 - Inner Emotion

We had to shut our eyes and feel our face in order to create this drawing - tapping into our 'inner emotions'. I thought this image would go everywhere, considering I kept taking my charcoal off the paper, however it doesn't look too bad - albeit a bit scary.



I'm not so sure the idea of 'inner emotion' got past the first exercise, but it has something.



We drew a diddy version and split it into four to then draw these four sections separately, larger. We then pieced the parts together and I was pleased to see the sizing of each part wasn't awfully different.



Week 6 - Combined and Rubber

The first exercise was started a drawing, and then moving on to another easel to finish another. It was quite a fun exercise and interesting to draw over another person's art - and notice in a way, that it is easier to see errors when it is not your work. In this piece below I continued the one on the left and started the one on the left. So for these next few images I do not take all the credit!



This should be first; I started this one off.



I continued this one and found quite a bit I needed to change. So it does look quite scruffy, yet in a way it makes it quite alive.



Then we moved off that and made pictures by rubber on to charcoal. I probably didn't press well enough with the charcoal or rubber but the marks are quite interesting. Also it's hard not to notice an obvious cup ring came through on this easel from years gone by...



A section of the model, again with rubber on charcoal.