Life Drawing - Session 2

My second life drawing session was similar to the first in what we tried, however we were shown different techniques which were designed to help us give the drawings  more weight, this technique really helped me.

The top drawing were the first few I did in the second session. The one below it shows the technique we were shown. The idea is to draw the model first made up of simple shapes to form different parts of the body. 


This helped me move away from the outline drawings I had initially done and started to think about the model in more of a 3D sense, to really capture the weight in the drawing.


This works when using circles and cylinders because the shape implies weight, whereas a cube has to be drawn with more sides to show it in 3D and to have weight, a circle can be seen already as a sphere, which has weight.






I feel like bottom drawings were really a step in the right direction. I then was able to focus on getting the perspective in the drawings more accurate from the angle I was at.

It also helped with actually drawing the model more accurately as well, I found i could more easily focus on one area and make it more accurate before moving onto the next shape.











These were drawn later on in the session, again I started with the method of drawing shapes first then developed the drawing each time. The bottom right one was the last version of the pose that I drew. 

I changed the perspective as the drawing went on, one of my big fundamental problems is still that I don't properly look at what I'm drawing. I think I'm making progress because towards the end I started checking perspective more but I definitely need to work on improving it.

I also I'm still not really tackling drawing heads or faces, they are still my weakest point. although I have started roughly adding them.







This was the last drawing we produced, same as the first week where we focused on where light was falling onto the model. I find this quite difficult, although I don't think the drawings I produced are that bad I think I progress more from just practicing drawing the form with a piece of black chalk as I have done above than this method. Although it is an interesting way of looking at the model, not at shape but at where the light falls and building shape from that.









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