WEEK 4: Live Drawing; Memory Sketching:
For this exercise, we first practiced drawing from memory. For the opening of the lesson the model would pose for a moment and we would observe his stance until the time was up. After he would go off stage and our job was to draw his pose from memory. In all honesty, I draw better with an object in front of me, and I think that showed through the seven minute image bellow.
After, we practiced drawing the model within boxes. This was quite a fun exercise as I had the option to draw him in segments, similar to that of a comic book character.
And after that we returned back to the usual live drawing with longer poses. The class ended on that note for the day.
2nd Year 1st Term: Live Drawing Week 5: Shapes In Figures
Here we learned how to draw our model with the help of various shapes, in order to aid in implying the angle and distance of the person being drawn.
2nd Year 1st Term: Live Drawing Week 6
Live Drawing: Week 7
LIVE DRAWING WEEK 8: DRAWING DEPTH WITH CHARCOAL
The first task to complete for live drawing was to attempt to create depth using shading to create shadows on our imagery. We were first instructed to draw a shading scale, showing the change in shade from black, grey and white with charcoal.
The first exercise was to draw the four objects set in front of the classroom under a warm, gentle lighting. There were two cubes, a giant facial carving and a mannequin torso. Using the charcoal I sketched all of the objects and used the shading technique to my advantage, having the different shades on the scale aid me in forming a 2D image with the illusion of depth and solidarity. I honestly prefer the torso and cubes I did, because the facial carvings eyes are on an uneven level.
Once completing that task we moved on to doing quick five minute poses from the model
Year 2: Live Drawing; Experimenting With Colour Week 13
Year 2; Live Drawing; Colour And Lighting Week 14
Live Drawing: Practicing With Painting 1 Week 16
In this session the class worked on exactly one picture. The motive was to try our best to blend the colours well to creative a decent image of the model.
Although I did not complete my painting, I think by the end I managed to blend the shade of skin modestly. In my possession I had the colours red, green, blue and white to work with. I managed to get the cold looking skin tone by mixing red and white and painting over the skin tone with a water coloured blue.
It's not perfect but I was beginning to get the hang of it. Painting still isn't my specialty, but I can tolerate it since I'm ok with blending now.
Live Drawing Painting 2 Week 17
Once again, painting was used in this lesson, however in this case we could use whatever material we liked to draw this time. Since I'm aware painting is certainly not my strong point, I went into the lesson with the good mind to paint and improve my skills. With that in mind, my lesson began with some quick poses from the model, which I had down on paper via painting.
After painting the quick 5 minute poses, we moved on to doing 10 minute poses. As seen in the following images, I tried my best to use shading well with the paintings, especially since I was using 1 colour for each image each. I had to try my best making different shades of blues and reds to emphasise the presence of skin and lighting, in order to subtly bring the picture to life.
I know I said that I decided to paint that lesson, but after the break and struggling to create images with paint, I changed my mind and went for a drawing material that I found more solid. I moved on to using chalk.
This time I was to draw 20 minute poses, and although I did not remain faithful to painting, chalk was so much easier for me to use, and I enjoyed shading with it. I used yellow, brown and red chalk, and it gave the model a very nice and smooth skin tone, especially after using my fingers to smear the shading over the body. I felt a little more in control when using this material.
Live Drawing: Facial Expressions Week
In the opening of this lesson we practiced drawing facial expressions. Everyone was put into groups of threes and each of us would have to draw the face of one person in the group under two minutes. The motive was to bring the face to life and, if we could, exaggerate the expression. I wouldn't say I did this too well, but here are the images I managed to draw featuring my two group mates.
After that exercise, we moved on to the usual 5 minute poses with the model.
After that we moved on to do a longer pose, preferably one that was 40 minutes long.
And when coming to an end, we closed it all up with a 20 minute pose.
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