Sic Parvis Magna? Hmmm...
So I've been sat here for what feels like hours - probably about 30 minutes - editing and uploading my life drawing work in preparation for Friday. Scary stuff. It got me thinking about just how much I've improved in the past year of being here, though. I'd done life drawing once before at college and really enjoyed it, but it was only for one lesson, which lasted little over an hour (sad times).
Anyway, yesterday was my last life drawing of first year! It was such a fun lesson and involved the usual 2 minute/opposite hand/blind contour drawings but this time we got to choose what medium we wanted to use. I decided to be boring and go for pencil and fine liner pens.
Soooooo, the image above shows a couple of warm up sketches in my first life drawing lesson here at DMU! I kinda felt like a deer in headlights at first as it was really a whole new experience and I was surrounded by people I didn't really know. The rest of the year went past in one big blur - way too fast for my liking!
Swiftly moving on, these three drawings are what I produced in yesterdays session. The two images above contain a variety of different warm up sketches. The left image has blind contour drawings - which I must say I can see the biggest improvement in. The first one I did looked the model had crab claws and no neck. I might attach a photo if you're lucky and fancy a laugh. The image on the right contains longer poses, I think these ones were around 5 minutes? I used a fine liner and pencil for these and looking back at the outcome from the first lesson I can see that my understanding of proportion has improved quite a lot, and rendering in general.
This drawing is a 'sort of' final in which the pose lasted for 35 minutes and was probably one of the most challenging poses for me yet. Don't get me wrong, I love a challenge, but I'm pretty sure I had to redo the head about 8 times because the position was off. :( I almost managed get the hang of it, but I decided to start shading the body instead, much more fun.
Well I suppose I did say I'd include the God awful blind contour....here goes...
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