Life Drawing 18

For this last life drawing lesson, our model had clothing on instead. I found it to be wildly contrasting to the usual naked model we had, as the clothing has plenty more lines and flow than the body. It also made the body appear more in shapes to me, and a little unnatural. We started off with a few simple sketches.

They then held a few poses with some props, including a broom, a large stick and even sitting down for about 15 minutes. For this I began to see how difficult it can get adding clothing on, as it throws off the measurements of the entire body for me.

We finished off with more short sketches, with our model in a robe and also without a shirt to see the difference. I feel with time, I could get better at doing this, but it was an interesting challenge.

Life Drawing 18

In this lesson, we worked on the initial practice sketches. Each being a good three minutes or so, before turning the model into a silhouette by drawing what appeared on the outside of the model so they were left blank. Perceptive and negative spacing became useful after the two drawings lasted fifteen minutes.

 After this, we worked on foreshadowing again, drawing the model for fifteen minutes and working out the body changes in distance from myself. Despite the body proportion being seemingly abnormal, it works in this perspective, and I found it quite enjoyable when it came to the end result.

Life Drawing 17

During this session, we practice more on perspective again using four squares around the model that had a cross grid on them, acting as guidelines for each pose.

Several more practice sketches were also done, all were for a brief three minutes in each pose.

We then practiced sketching the model very quickly in motion. I found this the hardest to focus on however.

The next few drawings were done for a good ten to fifteen minutes, focusing purely on the pose.

Life Drawing 16

We experimented with two contrasting colours to blend well together when drawing our model.

Each of the coloured drawings were done in pen. I soon enough got the hang of "fusing" the two colours together better rather than using one as an outline and the other for shading. What I understood here was how tone can fill up certain spaces of the body, and also define shape.

We did some further experiments. The two below has been drawn without leaving the paper (top), and with my left hand (bottom). I found the bottom one to be quite difficult, but also an interesting end result.

Here the top was done without looking at my drawing, as the bottom was done by remembering how the model appeared for several seconds, before we had to remember it. I think I got the bottom half slightly wrong, but I found the top to be incredibly fun (and funny).

Here are several other quick drawings I've done, as per usual to the start of each life drawing lesson. I particularly like the bottom left one.

Life Drawing 15

As part of this life drawing lesson, I had to draw with 3 point perspective, visualizing the model within a frame.

Along with several other short sketches. I found it quite difficult, but eventually understood the distance from viewing the model, and how they should appear on angles.

Life Drawing 14

In this lesson, I did some foreshortening as well as the additional sketches and close ups of hands and feet. I found this lesson quite enjoyable to sketch out, with a few mistakes I feel I understood this.

Life Drawing 13

During this session, we focused more on lighting, as well as trying some close up drawings and models with clothing.

Life Drawing 12

During this Life Drawing, I used two different mediums to outline the body and areas of light. Firstly I had done a few warm up sketches of the model.

Here is the sketches draw with two different mediums, highlighting the body in different areas.

I then tried to draw the feet closer in perspective.

Life Drawing 11

During this session, we labelled the muscles of the body. Firstly, we did the usual warm up sketches.

Below is a sketched hand drawing of my own in different positions.

Life Drawing 10

Back after the winter holidays, in my next life drawing lesson we focused more on faces. As well as practising the body form in brief sketches.