We had another life drawing session last week, this time with a female model. I prepared the backgrounds beforehand and it surprisingly fit the exercises well.
It’s wonderful how these simple lines can be this expressive of movement. It looked so graceful to me.
This next one was quite interesting, too. We were told we can choose to change the medium we are using. I’ve always been comfortable using soft pastels so using an Indian ink marker is a good change. The poses looked dramatic to me – very very interesting.
This part of the exercise was really confusing for me the last time we did it but I took some risks with this drawing and I think it paid off. I quite liked how the parts are fused and how it interacts with the background.
The proportions were not quite right here but I loved the idea of fusing elements into the drawing. I used the element of fire but illustrated it as if it’s water.
I developed one of the lines in the previous exercise and fused the background I created prior to our life session to illustrate the element of air.
I have been learning a lot of techniques to be more creative with my drawings. I have been more free with communicating my thoughts through drawing. The immediate feedback from those in my class and from our teacher has been really effective. I have tried things I have never thought of doing before and it has helped develop my process in creating. These exercises have been really boosting my confidence in terms of my capacity to create in general.
The term is about to end soon and as I am a distance delivery student, I am not too sure if I will have a slot for onsite classes next term. Hopefully, I’ll get to sign up to at least one onsite class. We’ll see!
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