Life Drawing Term 2

These are samples of what i've done, the rest of the collection is on disc.

I had a lot of fun in life drawing this term and learnt a lot of new techniques for drawing and trained my eye to see in more way, focusing on light, darks, negative space, the more obvious shapes, drawing solely in tone, weight balance, perspective and looking at the shape to figure out how best to represent it in different mediums such as pen, charcoal and ink. However the most interesting part I feel was when we drew with our off hands.

In our first lesson, we drew our hands following a pattern which represent movement or motion as you follow the images along.

 The drawing on left here was early life drawing for the second term, and was drawn from life. The drawing on the right was a self portrait, we all took pictures of ourselves to use as reference. I feel this went well, although unfinished it as all quite accurate and the shading was done well. The most interesting part for me is how my glasses distort my eyes, also the distortion of the camera.

 

This was a longer, pure tonal drawing. I feel the perspective and tone on this went well, it was very interesting looking at the tone and using that to find reference points, rather than lines. I think adding in some of the background scenery could have helped define the character.

 These were both different from what i've done before. The one on the left was with the charcoal on it's side, quickly putting in the overall shape and tone, and then using sharper lines afterwards to define it. On the right I covered the page in charcoal and used a rubber and sharper charcoal line to put in the shape. I like these styles and it would be interesting to see how they work in concept art. 

 

 This was a longer drawing, I did this with the paper on the floor and used ink to capture the main line and tone, I liked the style of this one, how the drops spread out into the page was interesting. It was good practice drawing on the floor for once as well.

 The drawing on the left is an ink drawing in which I used my left (off) hand for the character and my right hand for the scenery, I really liked the result of this one, I felt it was quite accurate and the squiggly left-handed lines gave it some life. The drawing on the right at the top of the picture were 10 minutes each with the left hand, the two at the bottom were quicker, I really like how the two at the top turned out, again the left-handed lines gave it a bit of life.

 

These are 2 of the favourite things I've done in life drawing, especially the pelvis on the right. Instead of using tones I used lines and changed their direction to capture the shape of the bone, it was part towards understanding how the shape of the pelvis worked, it ended up looking really nice and became a good reference for the pelvis shape. I did the ribs in a similar style, however I did draw them wrong, they are slightly to high or low on the left, though the process of doing the drawing did help train my eye, and teach me what can go wrong when drawing if you're not careful.

 These were all two minute drawings, all all did poses for each other. Some went better than others, the drawing on the left I drew with my left (off) hand, and the drawings on the right I drew with my right hand. I really enjoyed doing these, we were constantly making quick drawing judgements as we went though these, so we stayed focused and it was a great final thing to do to really train our eyes.