Archive for November, 2006

This is a repost because it vanished with the recent server crash - now read on…
I’ve been feeling poorly for a few days now (or as Thatch would put it, I’m not travelling well) and so only made it to one figure drawing class this week. The rest of the class would have begun on head, hands and feet, for the class that I missed so I’d better get some practice in before next week.

In the meantime, I’m posting two more of my sketches, both fairly short poses.

It feels sometimes like you have just got the shape fixed in your mind before the timer starts bleeping for the next pose and you have to whip the paper out for the next sketch. Talking to some of my class mates, we are of the opinion that drawing should continue throughout the course, not just in the first year. We shall see what subjects are on the agenda then.

I find the drawing really inspirational and more and more I’m pulling out my sketchbook or I’ve been finding ways of incorporating drawing elements into my assignments and projects.

The model who posed for the two sketches here was quite round in shape, but I had to concentrate on making my lines and shapes fuller and rounder or risk making her look quite slender. I need to do more in the way of blocking in the shapes before refining them, but the process is pretty slow for me.

Our first few weeks of drawing is being assessed, there are over 50 sketches. Of mine most are immediately disposable, some have a line or shape that is quite acceptable, and the rest - well, you’re pretty much seeing those here on the website.

Pencil is very nice for sketching, but it is nowhere near dark enough for putting on the website, charcoal smudges and transfers to anything it comes into contact with. Pastels are nice, but too thick to draw with, hmm, more experimenting coming up.

Anyway until next time, logging off,
Jools