Life Drawing (3-8-15) & I think spring is here!

Happy daylight savings time! I'm excited that longer days are abound! 

Drawing this morning felt challenging- I woke up late and missed out on the gesture drawing warm-up, and generally I hate gesture drawing but today I noticed how much it helps get started. I felt like I was fighting to stay with it- all of the drawings felt like an uphill battle. I was having a hard time creating something that looked as accurate as I wanted; however once I let go of my desire for realism things began to flow much better. I think I need to embrace my distortion more and accept that distortion is part of what makes my drawing style what it is. I do think I had some nice marks today.

 

30 minute poses.

Life Drawings (3-1-15)

These are my most recent drawings from our life drawing group. Each drawing was from a 30 minute pose. I thought these were garbage but after a couple days have passed I think they've grown on me. I still have some work to do on hands and feet though.

more drawing group

On Tuesdays our drawing group has one 2-hour pose, as opposed to the 30 minute poses they have on Sundays. This gave me the chance to work on a larger scale and also refine my drawing a bit. I'm really happy with how quickly it came together. I think the fact I was standing this time helped immensely- It allowed me to have a better angle my drawing and be more engaged- It's like it keeps me on my toes (both literally and figuratively (figuratively? figure drawing? eh? eh?))

I feel like some of the detail and finer line-quality is lost in this photo, but I it's also nice seeing the same work smaller and condensed- I can now see some issues with proportion and the shadows (I really didn't focus too much on the shadows.... and it shows...). The hand is a bit wonky too.

I think next Tuesday I'm going to switch to charcoal. All in all a great session.

I think next Tuesday I'm going to switch to charcoal. All in all a great session.