Female Life Drawing

Final Life drawing class. Had a really good lesson today. Really shown some improvement, and you can definitely see I'm starting to draw with my eye and not my what my mind THINKS I see.

Had a few issues where I kept making her too long, but I learnt a few things to help avoid this in the future. My final drawing avoided a lot of the issues but still required some tweaking before I was  happy with it.

2 Minute warm up sketches:

10 minute continuous line (outline):

40 Minute sketches:

Life Drawing / Observation Drawing

So I have yet to post any of the work from our Wednesday afternoon lesson as I have had to wait to be able to photograph them in some-what decent lighting conditions.

All the drawings were done on A2 paper, with either charcoal, pencil, or ink.

I included this close up of the head as I spent a lot of time here. I really like the way I've really made it pop out of the page using the background. But making some of the edges quite strong It helps suggest which are sharp and which are soft, rounded edges.

 After a break a grid was put behind our subject. This really helped create a perspective as we could use the negative space between the grids.

This is a small ink piece where by putting suggestive background shadow helps create the scene's full lighting.

This first page of sketches were all quick 2-3 minute sketches. A very good warm up exercise, and great practice for proportions and breaking down shapes.

The time was then increased to a few 15 minute sketches.

The time was then increased again to 30 minutes.

This final image took a lot of re-working. I constantly kept drawing what I wanted too, however once I overcome that, I achieved a great sense of perspective! Really happy with the results, and also learn a lot. Again using the negative shapes it helps to draw what you actually see and not what the mind is telling you you're seeing.

Some Drawing

So this is a quick post of a few drawings.

Firstly this one. I'm not particularly happy with this one. It was done in our life drawing class, and you probably can't make it out but it's a close up for skeleton ribs. It needed a lot more tone and depth, and took way too long. The only good thing was I counted the ribs correctly.

 This was a small homework task to draw a gun using perspective. I really struggled with this too. I really didn't understand the text for drawing circles in perspective, and I have no idea what to do for angled parts (like the handle). So I shall be asking Steve for some advice tomorrow.

Finally we have a small study on bugs. These were quick sketches on a selection of bugs. I wanted to explore a few shapes for insects; the bodies, legs, and wings. I found a few common trends in the legs and feet, the bodies also. I'm glad I done these and now I'm thinking about picking one bug, and drawing it in several views to then try and model!

I left it there for the night as I was starting to get annoyed with my drawing - it's definitely not my strong point.

Thankfully it's 3D tomorrow. ;)