Life Drawing Sessions

All of the drawings I created in attending the Life Drawing sessions this year are due tomorrow. So, here they are on the blog!

9-1:




9-8:



9-15:

The skull drawn in the right-hand corner was put there by my instructor to further illustrate to building blocks/components that go into drawing the human skull.


9-22:



9-29:



10-6: Hopefully you'll notice a mark-up in quality. If you do, it's because I started using a different sketchbook with a better quality paper. For anyone that doesn't think money=better drawings, they're dead wrong. If you have crappy materials, you're going to make a crappy drawing. Not to say skills aren't a considerable factor, but a great drawing is poorly rendered on a shitty sketchbook. The previous sketchbook's pages would literally come apart while I was erasing. These drawings are more "crisp" because I could erase without smuding everything up.

I made the mistake of not sketching the entire figure before going into the details. Because of this, his legs taper off because that's where the edge of the paper was. It's a mistake to draw larger than the pad. You will subconsciously alter the proportions to fit more onto the paper.




10-20:





10-27-06: These sessions were faster-paced, with an emphasis on quick sketches upon which you could base the rest of the drawing. For the first drwing I didn't make it past the sketch. For the second, I finished the sketch, but the session ended just as erased the lower-half's sketch so I could add cleaner, darker lines.



11-3:

The beginning of the day's session started with a flurry of fast-paced sketches, where we were to draw the model's figure, emphasizing the "line of action" as quickly as possible. The model would change her pose every 30 seconds. This was the first of 6 pages of sketches. I'm particularly fond of the sketch in the upper-left corner.

To relate back to animation, the instructor had the model change positions in a series of poses meant to resemble an action taking place, so we could practice "thumbnailing" the key parts of an event. In this, the model saw something, walked to it, and gave it a closer look.

Same idea as above. In this, the model is sweeping.