Life Drawing - Term 12, Week 10

So a good week, quite happy with my efforts again.  I am still very weak at drawing laying down poses so my teacher and the model set me a real challenge with the last pose.  Lying down and loads of foreshortening.  It was great and you can see all my proportional errors.  Needless to say not much time was left to render the tone but I enjoyed it.

 

5  min gestures

 

40 min

 

40 min

Life Drawing - Term 12, Week 9

Our model brought in a white parasol this week which made a lovely prop and some interesting poses for the quick gestures. I felt I made a good effort this week.

 

5 min gesture

 

35 min

 

45  min

Life Drawing - Term 12, Week 8

So a bit better at getting some softer tone this week, not quite so heavy handed but still so much to improve.

 

5 min gestures

 

20 min

 

15 min

 

35 min

Life Drawing - Term 12, Week 7

Not much to say about this week as these didn't really work out. Still trying.

40 min

 

40 min

Life Drawing Day - 25.5.13

It was a lovely sunny day and only myself and two others so plenty of room. I had a really good day with some success in small areas.

 

5 min gestures

 

30 min

 

20 min

 

20 min

 

20 min

 

1 hour 15 min

 

65 mins

Life Drawing - Term 12, Week 6

So at last I am updating all the life drawings I did back from May.  I was trying really hard all term to get to the rendering.  I was way too heavy handed in most of my attempts and really lost my proportions in some.  Can't wait for next term to start though so I can keep trying to improve.

 

5 min gestures

 

45 min

 

40 min

Lavender Hill - Term 3, Week 10

All to soon another term has come to an end and how I struggled with this cast drawing.  I think because the features were on a diagonal and the top of the head was missing.  I kept bashing away at it trying to work out what was wrong.  After quite a long time one of the founders, Ann, came to my rescue. She first corrected the mass of the top lip then shortened the nose and lowered the eyebrows. Finally she lightened the background to make the hair area above the forehead wider.  Everything made a lot more sense after this.

 

 The cast

 

The setup

 

Me murdering my drawing!

 

Charcoal on brown packing paper.

All better with Ann's corrections.  The two sphere's were a demo by my 

teacher of compressed value ranges. Sadly I spent so long trying to get the 

drawing correct I never got to do this.

So with the little time left and my cast drawing corrected my teacher suggested we finish of on the life drawing side.  I was a bit relieved to at least get the general drawing and shadow shapes down quite quickly.  It was a nice end to another good term. What a shame they go so quickly.

 

Charcoal on brown packing paper