I really enjoyed this session and felt more confident in my drawing this week. Morgan’s poses were amazing which definitely helped me to feel more inspired, and I felt that I started to understand how to capture the movement by focussing on exaggerating the lines I was using and thinking about the line of action.
Chose a 6B for this session which immediately made a huge difference to my drawing. I have also discovered that using this sketchbook is not ideal for these sessions as the size is too small and I’m going to run out of pages!
This week’s focus was on drawing the verb instead of the noun – capturing the action rather than the figure. This is definitely new for me and I think my drawings show that I still want to draw more precisely, however, I feel I have already massively improved from last week.
These were the first 30 second drawings of the session – my mind was so blank I had no idea how to even start trying to capture the movement! The format of these sessions is so interesting to me as it really helps me to get into the flow of drawing and understanding how to get things on the page.
Some of my final drawings. I attempted to create more drawings using lines of action but felt like the bean method was working much better for me. Hopefully with more practice I can combine the two and get some more interesting drawings on the page.
I have been drawing since I was in school and have produced many observational drawings but I have never attended life drawing classes before. This format is very new and unusual to me, I was especially uncomfortable with 30 second poses as I have always spent a lot of time perfecting my drawings.
This week’s main teaching was about ‘the bean method’ of life drawing. I found this structure useful but also found myself getting confused when having to work out the angles in such a short time. I was also clearly drawing way too small on these pages.
These are the more successful drawings from the session. Again I found it difficult to leave the drawings like this when I wasn’t happy with them, but I also think this is the best kind of activity I can do to break out of my perfectionist mindset. I am very much trusting the process with this class and can’t wait to see how my work changes as I understand more about life drawing.