Life Drawing (Week 5)

These were all done today (Oct 30, 2007) on newsprint, but with a china marker.

The china marker made a huge difference. It glides easier over the paper than any pencil I’ve used. And it is a lot easier to sharpen. If you wear out the end, you pull the string towards the back end, and peel the paper off. You don’t have to get out your sharpener and put it back. The only draw back to using a china marker is that you can’t erase it.

I think Today I began to understand what the teacher has been trying to teach us since the first class. He has a “sink or swim” way of teaching, because he’s used to teaching second and third semester students. But Today I think I did very well, and I’m starting to get this.

Anyways, to the sketches:

It would be great if I could upload the images in the order that I drew them so I could label them 30 seconds, 1 min, 2 mins, 5, 10, etc. Maybe next week I’ll write on the pictures what time I had to draw them. Easy way to figure it out is: if they’re poorly drawn/hardly finished, it took 30 seconds, a bit better is 1 min, most of the others are 2 minutes, and if I have the woman drawn out in the same pose more than once I had 5 or 10 minutes. The thing in the second image is the model’s shoulder. I was concentrating on it because if all the strength she was using to keep herself balanced.

Past Sketches

I plan on uploading my sketches on a daily/weekly basis, however, this entry will be all of my previous sketches up until now.

March 2007:

April 2007:

May 2007:

June 2007:

August 2007:

October 2007:

Life Drawing (Weeks, 2, 3, & 4)

I’ll apologize in advance, the medium my life drawing is done with is newsprint and an HB pencil. Today I used a 4B pencil, which is bolder, and thus easier to see, but I’m going to pick up a grease pencil tomorrow, which should make it a lot easier to see. The paper is 18 x 24, so scanning them is impossible, so I have to take pictures of them. When the flash is on, it makes it hard to see, and when it is off, the pictures are blurry.

These are drawings from Week 2 of my life drawing course. Our model was “Trevor” and apparently liked to wield swords.

These are from Week 3:

And these were all drawn today (Week 4.)
They’re easier to see, because instead of using a HB pencil I decided a 4B was much easier to draw with. I’m going to get a grease pencil, which will make it a whole lot easier to see.

And these are my first assignment, draw 10 hands and 10 feet. Which is hard, since I was my own model for most of the pictures.