Life Drawing: Part 2

Thursday started off badly with my taxi showing up at the wrong time. I paid the fare but sent them away in exchange for the right time. The correct time came and things were in motion, got to class, got everything set up and things were going good. We had to do quick poses, which meant quick drawing. I'm not the type of person that can easily stray away from my way of doing things but I found it quite fun to break away and do messy sketches in 15 seconds, the results weren't that terrible either (in my opinion) I felt like I was on a roll! We were then shown a method of how to measure body parts by using the head as a starting point. Plotting down points where a certain part should be, it sounded easy enough. Break then appeared out of nowhere; It had only felt like we'd been drawing for half an hour!

I got back to class and while nothing had changed, everything had changed. The momentum was gone and everything said prior to break was gone. I had a general idea of what to do and looking around the class, it seemed like everybody else was struggling with it too. I think some techniques work for people, while others don't. You won't necessarily pick it up right away on your first attempt! Still, a good learning experience. I can't work well standing, let alone using an Easel. It's uncomfortable and restrictive (for me, personally)

After that we tried some Indian Ink drawings. I had never used ink before and when I applied it to the paper, I found it had quite a nice result and good potential to be used in the future. We didn't have long to do these drawings, so it was a bit difficult to rush with a media I hadn't previously used. A second drawing was proposed and it was like I had never drawn in my life. 4 attempts and I gave up. I wasn't impressed. After that I was thankful it was time for dinner.

When we came back, a set up was arranged and our model got comfortable for a long pose. This actually went quite well, though when I had reached drawing the face, I had a lot of problems and found I wasted too much time trying to draw the curve of the brow and nose. I think overall the proportions were on the right track. I could of easily seen myself working on this piece for many many more hours but unfortunately we only had 3 hours of time and that resulted in the following unfinished-finished piece. I really wished we had more time, so I could get correct tones, add in the right amount of detailing and fix the bad areas.