Life Drawing 31st July 2014

I've been so busy at work lately that I gave life drawing a rest for a bit. (Also they kept using the same model to often and I got a bit bored.) This is actually the second week back but I don't think I scanned the first sessions drawings. I was quite happy with the result as I've been reading about and watching YouTube videos on drawing the head and face and I think it's paying off.

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2 min each

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Life Drawing 16th & 30th January and 6th February

Here are my life drawings for the last three life drawing sessions I went to. The last drawings especially I was just trying to work out the anatomy of the model. He had a huge chest and back muscles but no definition of the smaller muscles so I was confused as to what I was actually looking at. I have just come to the conclusion he had really huge infraspinatus muscles.

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20 min

20 min

20 min

45 min

20 min

20 min

2 min

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5 min

20 min

20 min

20 min

I spent most of the 20 minutes just trying to decipher his back muscles so ran out of time on the legs.

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2 min

Life Drawing 9th January 2014

It's been a few weeks since I've been at Life drawing. I feel, despite going back to chopping off the tops of heads etc, that it went quite well. I think my recent course in Anatomy with Scott Eaton has really helped. I also tried out a new grippy pencil that I've bought. I think it may be better for larger drawing though.

2 min poses

2 min poses

2 min poses

2 min poses

20 min pose

I was trying something different his week. Trying to work out shadows and rendering them nicely. I read an article in Imagine FX that was more for charcoal than graphite so I didn't quite get what I wanted.

20 min pose

Not sure I like this one either but it's proven positive with others.

30 - 40 min

My favourite of the night, tried different pencils and experimented more with the shadows. There are areas where I am not sure it worked, for example his hand is to small and there is something weird going on with his leg which might have been caused because I started drawing to big and ran out of space again. 

This was a quick 5 - 10 min drawing of the other model after I'd finished the previous drawing.

Life Drawing 5th Nov

I hadn't been to Life drawing for a few weeks, I went with a new pad which was a different sort of paper to my last one. Not sure about it yet. I also tried out doing a portrait which I don't normally do. It's not perfect, but for a first try I'm pretty happy with it. I shall try and do more of them in future.

15 min pose.

13 min pose.

21 min pose.

20 min pose.

20 min

I think this one is my favourite of the night, even though noticing now his most forward hand is way to small! Doh! 

The model here was actually reading a book during this 45 minute pose, I didn't want to draw any more after 20 min.

Life Drawing 8th Oct

Trying to apply the suggestions from the Force book again. Not sure if I am getting it but I've been getting compliments so something must be right. Shall keep working at it.

20 minute pose

20 minute pose

20 minute pose

Always good to attempt a difficult pose.

20 minute pose

The torso is a bit long and as a result I cut his head off, but I like his legs so that's good.

Life Drawing 1st Oct 2013

I think this is the first life drawing I've done since rereading the book, "Force". I'm not sure if it helped. I shall keep practising. On the plus side I think it's stopped me over working the drawing.

I think this one was about 15 min.

This one was 20 minutes