15/12/2010

On today's life drawing class we had a warm up with few 1 minute drawings. After that we were practising lines of action. We were limited to only five lines per drawing. I really enjoyed using this method. It really helps me to find the essence of the pose. Next we were drawing using arrows for each joint. The arrows were to help us understand the direction of each part of the body. But I found those arrows useless, because it's easy to tell the direction just by looking at the model. Finally we were limited to only 15 seconds per drawing and could use either of these methods. I've used the first method, lines of action. By using this method, my drawings came to life. They were full of action and the weight is clearly visible. And even though 15 seconds doesn't look like plenty of time, I didn't have any problems with completing my drawings.

24/11/2010

Today we went to Natural History Museum. On the last life drawing class I've learnt a lot about line of action and how to draw quickly. However, I'm not happy with today's drawings. You can't see the life inside of them. The curves don't go in the right direction and it's really hard to see where is the weight of the people I've drawn.
Here are few examples of today's drawings:

17/11/2010

Today our time was cut to only 30 seconds. However, we've started with 2 minutes to give ourselves a warm up. We were told a lot about the lines how to draw them and how to show their quality. We were given no time limit for few drawings just to experiment with those lines. hen we were cut to 30 seconds. And with this new technique 30 seconds was no problem at all. I've managed to finish some drawings in even 10 seconds.

10/11/2010

Today we went to the National Gallery to draw real people not a  model.

In order to complete each drawing I had to forget about the details and draw the whole figure using just few lines of action. I found it quite difficult to draw these people, as they were instantly moving. After about half an hour of drawing I wasn't happy with my drawings and got quite bored as each person had a similar pose. But I kept on drawing and soon my drawing got much better and I've started noticing that each person is different and tellsa different story. I've started to use curves rather than straight lines and the differeneces between each person became much more noticable. I've also discovered that drawings have a lot more power if I drew feet of my models. Because most of the time the feet carry the most of the weight.