Week 20 - Life Drawing

We began the session with six 3 minute sketches, though I ran out of room in the end as I was only expecting only five.

For the image on the left we weren't allowed to look at the paper, only the model. Keeping my hand very close to the paper on only making small hand movements meant I didn't make too many mistakes, though obviously still very wrong overall. This was very hard for me, and I did accidentally keep glancing at the paper though I never moved my hand/corrected myself.

For the drawing on the left we looked at the model for a few minutes without drawing, then the model moved and we drew from memory. Although I remembered the pose almost exactly, I spent to long focusing on remembering and did very badly at actually converting it into a drawing.

This was a left hand drawing. I am getting more used to this but still lack most of the control I need to draw so find it very difficult.

This drawing was very fun to do. It is all one line, we drew without taking the charcoal off the paper. I turned it round occasionally to get sharper lines but overall it is one thick line. I really like how it looks, even though it isn't really accurate or neat.

Next we used two colours to create depth. I used two very similar colours which weren't really the plan but I liked how it looked.

The model was being lighted by a red light so the pink pastel looks more accurate and the way they blended roughly made for an interesting pattern.

The similarity in colours meant everything blended together a bit too much so I added some charcoal to define edges/creases.

It was difficult to do this without making it stand out too much and it didn't blend with the colours but overall it helped give shape.

We then chose another two colours. The difference between these colours is more extreme so it looks more interesting.

I really liked the way these colours worked together, despite the white being chalk and purple being pastel.