Life Drawers.

When I'm tired of drawing the model or I've finished the pose I will often move on to draw some of the folks sitting around. No one is safe in a life drawing class, even if you're not a model you're still a target.

 

 

 

Romans!

I bought 'Total War: Rome II' by the Creative Assembly recently and it inspired me to draw some Romans. Not much more to say than that really, other than the fact that it is an awesome game (despite the release glitches).

Old Life Drawing.

They're not necessarily old, but here is a selection of life drawings from over the past few months starting from early September. The majority of these drawings were done during the two hour life drawing sessions on Mondays and Thursdays with Bristol Life Drawing. Sorry about the photo quality, I don't currently have access to a scanner and I wanted to post these up. Also in some cases the time stated in the image will actually be shared with another drawing, just so y'know.

 

Life Drawing.

Since the start of term I have been doing at least 7 hours of life drawing a week outside of my Art Foundation course as well as a small amount within it. I've been asking around for advice for how to improve from my tutors and all of them without exception suggested that I should work on a larger scale and with a greater variety of materials. Moving out of my comfort zone wasn't easy, and it still took a couple of weeks to get to an A3 size drawing, but I got there.

 These drawings were done in my regular classical style but on a significantly larger scale (almost 3x the height).

My first time using both charcoal and ink. Both images had a light pencil sketch beneath them in order to keep the proportions as accurate as possible.

These two drawings were created in the animation workshop. On the left you can see the first drawing I did which was in my regular style, and to the right is the image I was told to draw using circles. I still didn't draw her completely with circles as I thought this was pushing construction a bit too far however this second drawing does seem to contain more motion.

Art Foundation.

Okay!

So its been a hell of a long time since I last posted (its not as if anyone is counting) so I thought I should give an update on what Im doing. In September this year I started my art foundation course with the main intentions of getting better at drawing before going on to study animation at the Arts University Bournemouth (unless I can get into Calarts or Sheridan), and to learn how to paint. Having actually switched from another art foundation course down to the Royal West of England Academy I had missed the first couple of weeks of workshops and so missed the chance to do Illustration however was pleased to be put straight into the modelling workshop. First task of the day was to model the face of the person sat across from you, and here are the results. This was the first time I had ever done any clay modelling as I was much more used to using plasticine on a small scale, so this was quite a jump for me. Unfortunately I forgot to get a photo of my 'model' but it didn't look much like her anyway so I prefer to say she was just the inspiration.

I decided to continue some of this modelling work later as well and in preparation for the animation workshop. I attempted a plasticine horse with wire frame.however I ran out of white plasticine for the back leg which is currently just an exposed wire although it's still able to stand which is a small feat. The Dog below was created in the animation workshop and was capable of full articulation if you were willing to spend the time to get him back on model every time you moved him, which my animation accomplice was not. The animation was pretty shabby so there probably wont be any of that posted up here unless I can get the model home to do some myself.

 My most recent model:

 Expect bulk posts in the near future as I post what I've been doing since March