Beginning this post I can't help but think of the general public reaction to life drawing and that anything I write could sound a bit perverted in the wrong context. The different attitudes to life drawing and naked people of artists and of different professions I find quite funny sometimes. That an artist can look at a person and see almost only an object to be drawn, rather than a naked person. There isn't time or room to be embarrassed as I illustrated at the start of 6th Form two years ago, where I requested to do life drawing on my initiation sheet, which probably seemed a bit strange to the Head of 6th Form, it being the first day.
I'd done life drawing once before last year, but this was my first life drawing session at college and I was really looking forward to it. Wanting to specialise in animation at university I'm aware of how important practicing life drawing is and so I enjoyed the session a lot. It was tiring, but I learnt some new techniques. I've posted the drawings in order below so any improvement can hopefully be seen.
5 Minute Sketches
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| No. 1: He turned out too fat |
His name was John, he used to do weight lifting, he was out of proportion.
I always wonder about the models and why they would choose to do life drawing. It seems a daunting prospect to me, but maybe it's just like donating your body to science? One day I'd like to interview the models on their lives, but then again would that history interfere with the process of drawing them. It might be a bit awkward drawing them after finding out their life history.
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| No. 2 |
15 Minute Sketch
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| No. 3 |
Change of model.
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| No. 4 |
No. 4 went quite wrong - I originally drew her shoulders too wide and so she looked too masculine (you can see the remnants of this in the photo). So Dave, the life drawing teacher, fixed this and consequently drew most of this sketch. I did however draw the hands, everything from the navel down and half of the right arm.
Sketchbook work - 3 Minute Sketches
To begin with we focused on position and so had to draw with straight lines.
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| No. 5 |
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| No. 6 |
Then we looked at different view points and I found this change of perspective interesting, how the proportions and rules for drawing can change so much just from movement.
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| No. 7 (One of my favourite drawings of the day - I just liked the new position and the challenge it offered) |
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| No. 8 |
20 Minute Sketch
The last drawing of the day and everything that I'd learnt over the day is incorporated. I think it turned out quite well - a successful first session.
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