Life Drawing 5

The final Life Drawing lesson of the semester. Just a few poses which went on from 10 minutes to 35 minutes. I used the willow charcoal again as I like it. I can get quick figures down on the page to give myself some vision as to how the whole thing should look like etc. The final drawing is the 30+ drawing at home. I used an image on the internet for the reference. I still have trouble with drawing bodies, the proportions are almost always not in good shape. I reckon I did pretty good in the clothes part, though. Drawing the creases in them is fun.

Life Drawing 4

Again with the gestures, I still have no idea. With the poses, however, I worked on drawing the contour first for a bunch of the drawings, but they just don't turn out that good. My mini studies, first of all apologies for the final two images; the photos did not turn out that well. I think the hand looks pretty good, I'd like to work on them more in the future. The others did not turn out that well, but I'll work on improving them as well.

Life Drawing 3

This was the class I started to use willow charcoal (I think that's what it's called). I didn't quite grasp the concept of shading this lesson. As you can see above, most of the drawings using the charcoal are really grey, and it's hard to see the 3D within the legs etc. I feel I did pretty good for cloth/tower drawing for a first attempt. Also in a few drawings I spend a bit too long in 1 part of the body and just end up drawing the legs for example. I need to manage the allotted time more efficiently.

Spheres & Boxes. Molding them together and working out mass etc.

Life Drawing 2

The above images are all from class work. Again, they consist of gesture drawings, which are 10 seconds to 30 seconds usually, and longer pose drawing. Which can range from 5 mins to 30 mins. Within the gesture drawings, I try a different approach to getting them complete. So instead of stick figured, I try to draw boxes + cylinders to indicate where their arms are + elbows, knees etc. But again, 10 to 30 seconds is just way too fast for me at this point. I'm more comfortable with longer poses. This week, again, I continue to just do contours, but in later weeks I try different drawing materials.

Homework was to draw a character in overlapping shapes and then to redraw the character with more volume in the shapes and overlay some fat. I understand it's not to just make the 2nd image bigger than the first to create more mass, which is what it looks like in the above image. I did attempt to create the extra volume within the overlapping shapes as required. I made them look more drooped because of the fat such as the stomach, arms and legs.. I did a bit of shading also, but not too much.