Life Drawing

We have been taking life drawing lessons one day a week.

Here are my pieces so far.

These last two images were done with 2B and 4B pencils to introduce us to tone. I am quite pleased with the outcome though I would have added more shading if we had more time.

 

Clay

The tiny figures were really hard and stressed me out a lot, I couldn't work that small and gravity worked against the standing models so it just kept falling apart. The Large head went a lot better and I was quite pleased with that. We had a wooden stand with a short, thick, squared stick going up, which we covered in many layers of newspaper and then thick strips of clay before adding features.

We had to keep moving around the room so we got each angle correct. It was hard to make was you saw rather than what you felt it should look like. I kept making her face too thin. Many people exaggerated the features that were noticably different on the models face, for example, her nose sloped outwards in an inclined curve... so many people gave her a massive nose to capture that feature in order to give it the features that made up her face.