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.

It's Snowing & Life Drawing

Quite a bit, but it's not settling on the grass at the moment.

So I booked up for a 10 week life drawing workshop. Started last week and discovered it was a proper taught one, harking back more to my Art Foundation and before days. I thought during it that actually this was exactly what I needed: a freshen up. My life drawings have not pleased me so much for a while so it's good to be getting ideas and techniques into my work again. Anyway, here's my stuff from the first two weeks. Taken photos as too big to scan.

Week One - Line:

Drawing with my left hand and then solely looking at the model, not the paper.

Using pen and pencil with both hands at the same time, aiming to make the closer [to me] a tad darker line.

Using two different pencils again, darker and the lighter line. The head went wrong here. The light pencil line for the leg was showing where it should have been going by actual distance and height between parts of the body.

Week Two - Tone:

Photographed not too clearly so some quick editing in Photoshop brought out the colour a bit better. Charcoal used only to show the darker tones of the body; not supposed to use lines.

Chalk is a lot of fun to work with - it really can give a pleasing effect. Chalk used to show the lighter parts of the body.

Chalk and charcoal used for light and dark.

I am also working on - and considering - other animation and illustration related things at the moment - maybe more on them soon.

The snow is beginning to settle more.