This week was pretty exciting in Life Drawing. Getting a real model was way more laid back and professional than I had imagined. So Tuesday was all about drawing the model. We began with quick 30-second sketches of her, doing about 15 in all. We then switched it up, gradually making the times longer and longer. The 30-second sketches were way harder than I thought they would have been. At first it seemed like I would get two lines down and we would already be on to our next sketch. Fortunately, the more we did the quick sketches, the better I got. We learned about drawing the center linear line of a ligament, rather than the typical outside, thus creating a more 3D look to simple line drawings. It’s still a difficult concept for me to grasp, but I’m getting there. The first picture below is just one of my pages of the quick 30-second drawings, and one of my better pages (which might not say much, but believe me, there is improvement).
After doing 30-second and one-minute drawings and so on, we went on to do a 30-minute drawing. The 30-minutes seemed to go so slow compared to the 30-seconds that we had done over and over again. After I completed one drawing (or what I felt was complete), I went on to tackle it again, in the last 5-minutes or so. I feel that my first drawing is better with line weight and detail (which makes sense because I spent the most time on it), while my second drawing makes better use of space i.e. the perspective seems better and you can see the total stretch of her body.
Today, Thursday, we got our mannequins, and this weekend we have to begin adding muscles to that. I’m sure, this too, will be something that gets better with practice.
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