Life Drawing 28th January 2016

Art I've done over the last year.

It's been a while since I uploaded to this blog so here are some of the life drawing/portraiture I've been doing in 2015.

Life Drawing 31st July 2014

I've been so busy at work lately that I gave life drawing a rest for a bit. (Also they kept using the same model to often and I got a bit bored.) This is actually the second week back but I don't think I scanned the first sessions drawings. I was quite happy with the result as I've been reading about and watching YouTube videos on drawing the head and face and I think it's paying off.

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Life Drawing 16th & 30th January and 6th February

Here are my life drawings for the last three life drawing sessions I went to. The last drawings especially I was just trying to work out the anatomy of the model. He had a huge chest and back muscles but no definition of the smaller muscles so I was confused as to what I was actually looking at. I have just come to the conclusion he had really huge infraspinatus muscles.

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I spent most of the 20 minutes just trying to decipher his back muscles so ran out of time on the legs.

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Life Drawing 9th January 2014

It's been a few weeks since I've been at Life drawing. I feel, despite going back to chopping off the tops of heads etc, that it went quite well. I think my recent course in Anatomy with Scott Eaton has really helped. I also tried out a new grippy pencil that I've bought. I think it may be better for larger drawing though.

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20 min pose

I was trying something different his week. Trying to work out shadows and rendering them nicely. I read an article in Imagine FX that was more for charcoal than graphite so I didn't quite get what I wanted.

20 min pose

Not sure I like this one either but it's proven positive with others.

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My favourite of the night, tried different pencils and experimented more with the shadows. There are areas where I am not sure it worked, for example his hand is to small and there is something weird going on with his leg which might have been caused because I started drawing to big and ran out of space again. 

This was a quick 5 - 10 min drawing of the other model after I'd finished the previous drawing.