As mentioned in the last blog, I did life drawing this week…
…And it’s not what I thought it out to be. I honestly thought I’d be incessantly gigling in one corner and wouldn’t be able to concentrate at all but it wasn’t the case.
I have always found drawing people so intimidating and I was a bit anxious about doing this exercise because it feels like I do not have enough skills to actually deliver.
The whole exercise was very helpful as I have learned a lot about the human form and how I can express its beauty on paper.
The first task was to create line impressions from quick 10/15 second poses. I liked the effect when I had to layer the lines simply because I ran out of space. It’s amazing how you can express movement in such simple lines.
The next task was to block shapes to express forms. Pardon the crappy photo quality but if you are able to see it, the strokes helped a lot in expressing movement and form for this exercise. I enjoyed using the yellow pastel. I liked this part because it looked like the shapes were dancing on the page.
This last part was my most favourite. We had enough time to draw details, focusing on highlights and shadows. I am pretty proud of the drawing on the top right part of the photo.
I definitely still have a lot of improving to do but these exercises gave me enough confidence that I do have the capacity to draw the human form.
Looking forward to more exciting challenges in the coming weeks!
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