Week 02 - Life Drawing

Today was my first life drawing session.

 We started by by doing five 3 minute drawings. It was weird to get used to drawing quickly without adding in much detail. I used a thick piece of charcoal so there isn't as much detail and shading as I would have liked.

We were then told switch to our non-dominant hand which most of the class struggled with. We had 5 minutes for each of these three poses. Although I found it very hard and tiring, I had a smaller piece of charcoal and added more details than the first ones. Using my left hand also meant I spent longer focusing on what I was drawing and trying to make it accurate so some parts actually look better than my right-hand drawings.

For the last pose we spent 5 minutes drawing the figure to fill the page. We then all moved along to the easel to our right and carried on with that drawing. We swapped another two times before stopping and looking at everyone's pieces. It was interesting to see the little changes that had been made with each new person.