Life drawing Sunday happens once a month, on the last Sunday of the month. This is great as I can accomplish two open studio sessions in as many days. The problem now is I just need to figure out what to write about.
My gesture drawings went well this session, there are a few gesture drawings on this sheet that I actually like. I still need to clean them up a bit though.
I’m not sure why I decided to do some shading on these short drawings, I never do that. I think I may have been doing it to cover up some of the bad drawing.
I was working fast on this one, maybe too fast. The pose she took for 15 minutes was one that I could tell would tax the model and would shift drastically within the 15 minutes so I decided not to focus too much on measurement and just move through the drawing with as much accuracy as I could garner through comparative measurement. It proved to be a good choice, by the end of the pose she had shifted wildly.
Here I was able to focus on accuracy. Overall this drawing is done well, but I need to check my horizontal width more often, I rely very heavily on vertical measurement and plumb lines, but I neglect the horizontal often.
I’m not sure about this drawing at all, I’m pretty sure its accurate, but it just looks incorrect and I’m not sure why.
This reclining drawing went well, I always enjoy foreshortening poses.
This last pose again has a lot of vertical accuracy but I know that my widths are off in places. From looking at these drawings I also have to be careful not to loose the gesture of the figure and the movement in the body.
I found this image of Harold Speeds amazing drawing book here. A book that I have read and think this is one of the best drawing books out there, plus it’s free.
