Lifedrawing- Foreshortening

I enjoy drawing from foreshortening angles, so this lesson was good.

Date: 15th March, 2011

Model: Jane

Time: 35 Minutes

Description: Forshortening Pose 1

Date: 15th March, 2011

Model: Jane

Time: 30 Minutes

Description: Forshortening Pose 2

Date: 15th March, 2011

Model: Jane

Time: 30 Minutes

Description: Forshortening Pose 3

Lifedrawing

Date: 8th March, 2011

Time: 1 Hour

Description: Standard Pose

Lifedrawing 8th Feb

Date: 8th February, 2011

Model: Jane

Time: 30 Minutes

Description: Observational (Left) & Memory (Right) Drawing

Date: 8th February, 2011

Model: Jane

Time: 30 Minutes

Description: Observational (Left) & Memory (Right) Drawing

I thought this lesson was alright.

I do feel I made things harder for myself though. With the first pose I think the observational drawing came out better (which is obvious) but it was because I wasn't drawing normally for the memory drawing. I kept rubbing out and redrawing and on the whole was trying too hard to get it right, instead of just drawing from memory the way I usually would.

On the second pose, however, I feel the memory drawing was more successful. I dont know why my observational piece was so off this time but hey.

Date: 8th February, 2011

Model: Jane

Time: 30 Minutes

Description: Drawing in Motion

The reason they all seem to only be her bottom half is because she moved a bit to fast for me to keep up; her legs stayed rooted more of the time, while her arms moved around quite a lot.

1st February Life Drawings

Date: 1st February, 2011

Model: Francis

Time: 30 Mins

Description: "Drawing in Motion" 1. We drew Francis as he walked around the room

Date: 1st February, 2011

Model: Francis

Time: 30 Mins

Description: Drawing in Motion 2

Date: 1st February, 2011

Model: Francis

Time: 1 Hour

Description: Static Pose

Date: 1st February, 2011

Model: Francis

Time: 10 Minutes

Description: Drawing in Motion 3. Instead of walking around the room, the model continuously turned on the spot.

To be honest, I didnt enjoy this session for a number of reasons. It was no fault of the model, I just wasn't very focused at all and it shows in my work today. It was a long day. I do however like the idea of drawing a model in motion, it is a lot better then drawing a model pretending to move (standing in a"moving" pose) and proves to be challenging. It wasn't all bad, as in some of these pieces you can actually tell that there is movement going on. I will try harder next lesson and I will strive for a better outcome.

Decembers Lifedrawing

Date: 7th December 2010

Model: Jane
Time: 10 Minutes

Description: Free Pose

Date: 7th December 2010

Model: Jane
Time: 10 Minutes

Description: Free Pose 2

Date: 7th December 2010

Model: Jane
Time: 30 Minutes

Description: 2 Poses in 30 minutes (15 mins each) 

 

 

Date: 7th December 2010

Model: Jane
Time: 5 Minutes

Description: 5 "Superhero" poses, 1 minute each

Date: 7th December 2010

Model: Jane
Time: 1 Hour

Description: Foreshortening Pose

Lifedrawing

Date: 16th November 2010
Model: Jane
Time: 20 Minutes (3 minutes each)
Description: We were asked to produce come colour drawings using charcoal. The model would be move every 3 minutes and we had to do a new sketch, over the old one, using a different colour.

Date: 16th November 2010

Model: Jane

Time: 1 Hour

Description: A free session using pencil

Lifedrawing Update

Date: 9th November 2010
Model: Jane
Time: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Description: A third drawing done using charcoal, I think this was my best piece of the evening



Date: 9th November 2010
Model: Jane
Time: 30 Minutes
Description: Second pose, drawn using charcoal. I liked this pose the most because I enjoy practicing drawing from this perspective.

Date: 9th November 2010
Model: Jane
Time: 45 Minutes
Description: The first drawing of the evening. I think it went well just didnt get the face done, stomach didnt come out as planned either. Still I dont think its that bad...

Date: 26th October 2010
Model: Jane
Time: 1 Hour
Description: Negative Space:- I tried a slightly different approach this time. I prefer it to the first peice, but i still dont like this "negative space" stuff.

Date: 26th October 2010
Model: Jane
Time: 40 Minutes
Description: Negative Space:- I didnt really understand this exercise nor did i enjoy it. I did what I thought was right but I think it was wrong by the looks of everyone else's drawing which all looked similar.

Date: 12th October 2010
Model: Becky
Time: 30 Minutes
Description: A free lesson to draw how you like. I think the drawing is alright, but it doesn't look like Becky. This is more of a filled out Becky.

Date: 12 October 2010
Model: Becky
Time: 30 Minutes
Description: Body Composition Judged On Distance:- Here I focused more on getting the measurements right rather then the likeness. The drawing came out rather small, but the proportions were about right.

Date: 12th October 2010
Model: Becky
Time: 5 Minutes
Description: A quick 5 minutes pose to get the basic shape.

Date: 12th October 2010
Model: Becky
Time: 1 Minute
Description: 3 poses drawn in one minute each. This was a speed exercise working on blocking out the main shape before you go to add detail. (I went over them in Photoshop because they were drawn very lightly)

Life Drawings

I just realised i havent posted any of my life drawings, so here they are

21st September
Model: Becky
Full figure drawing

28th September
Model: Becky
4 poses in 5 mins (each)

28th September

Model: Becky

Full body drawing using only straight lines, triangles and 4 sided shapes

40mins

5th October
Model: Female Mannequin
Group Abstract (Everyone takes turns adding to my drawing for 30 seconds)

5th October
Model: Female Mannequin
Draw the Manekin without looking at the page. (I looked twice ;p )

5th October
Model: Jonathan Pearman
20 mins

5th October
Model: Paul Lemarquis
20 mins

5th October
Model: Godwin
20 mins

More to come