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Last night’s lifedrawing.
Pose lengths: 3 to 20 mins
Model: Gabrielle
This week’s lifedrawing.
Model: Marie
Pose lengths: 3 - 20 mins
Some lifedrawing from the past fortnight: some in-studio sketches, and a lifedrawing class.
Sometimes if I feel I’m not having a good drawing session, I’ll overlap my drawings rather than keep them separate. It portrays my contempt for my shitty drawing hahaha!
Last night’s lifedrawing (in 30 deg C heat).
Model: David
Pose lengths: 3 to 20 mins
Clearly I still can’t draw beards for shit.
From Monday night’s lifedrawing class… it’s been the only art I’ve done outside of work this week :(
Model: Joanne
Pose lengths: 3 to 20 mins
First lifedrawing session for the year… a bit clunky.
The poses weren’t especially dynamic, so I tried to push them a bit with some exaggeration which is how she ended up with a humungous butt in the last one. God it looks ridick.
Model: Kathleen
Pose lengths: 3 to 20 mins
I’m not much cop at drawing clothes, and considering I do lifedrawing quite often, I’ve neglected to spend equal focus on clothed models. How to approximate/simplify how material folds (depending on location and fabric) is something I need to work towards, otherwise it’s just a messy chicken scratch and the sense of form is lost.
Here’s a couple of 10 min sketches I did at a studio drawing session this week.
Last night’s class was disorientating for a few reasons.
* The first pose was a 20 minute moving pose, hence the overlapping figures in the first 4 images. Challenging, and a long time since I’ve done something like that. It’s not quite Nude Descending a Staircase but I guess it is Futuristic.
* Using pastels and pastel paper. Ermergerd. It felt like I was using a brick to draw on gravel! I’m just not used to the format so I was rather hamfisted at it. I didn’t use them through the entire session, just for two of the 5 minute poses and both the 10 minute poses. I need to spend more time figuring out how to work this particular medium. I might go to a larger paper than I was working with (A4) until I can get a better grip on using them. I can see a potential for working more with lighting and tone rather than line, so that’ll be good experience for me.
* Had a glass of champagne cos it was the last class for the year. Like it’s not already hard enough for me to control my drawing hand!
* Using the pastels slowed me down a lot, so when it came to the 20 minute pose and I went back to the charcoal pencil, I got a lot less done of the figure than I should’ve.
protowilson Said:
The models are part of the Life Models Society here in Victoria which assist models in getting decently paid work, as well as ensuring that the modelling they do is in a safe, respectable environment.
Model: Marina
Pose lengths: 1 to 20 mins
The last image is pretty ho-hum, but I was faced with not much tonal variation on the form so thought I’d try something a bit different. I don’t think I allowed the brown of the paper to come through enough on the figure. I’m trying to branch out a little instead of sticking to charcoal and paper, so gotta start somewhere!
I’d like to make a concerted effort on attending classes over the Xmas break since there’s a salon being held that has two sessions a day, as well as two sessions on Australia Day with 6 models! Which reminds me, I better get my finger out and do a TF2 picture for Australia Day.