Life Drawing Classes - Access to HE Art & Design
Start date 13 January 2014 - 24 March 2014 10:00am
Select 10 - 15 drawing that reflect the assessment criteria.
Line - tone - texture- form- shape - BE IMAGINATIVE and experimental !!!!
In a range of drawing and painting media
Show and investigation of measurement - balance - perspective - anatomy through drawing
Include MOST SUCCESSFUL & LEAST SUCCESSFUL drawing
Keep all drawings to see your progress, and maybe reflect on outside influences, and how you
felt, whether it be elation or frustration.
You could also do extra research on artists who use life drawing in their work.
13 1.2014.
Measured drawing
Add handout image
09:55 far too early to fight with an easel, be in agony with sciatica and pains!
Anyway managed to position easel properly with a close view of our model.
Straight into it with a warm up sketch on newsprint to produce 4, 5 minute drawings of Ruth
our fabulous life model.
Just so you know Ruth has a finger missing and does not want us to draw it in.
Tried to size up with a pencil wondering if that was right how I knew, if it was correct!
Quite pleased with the sketches.
We then learned from our tutor Nikki how to size up a model. Normally head goes into height 7 times, Ruth is actually 6.5!
On reflection because it was a long pose I decided to size up head then torso etc as I went, in
case the same position not achieved again. This left me a little short of time on the legs and
feet as I had spent more time on the higher parts of the body. Legs needed a little more
attention proportion-wise.
Happy with line drawing, proportioned quite well for a newby and neat.
Considering I felt ill and was in pain it went well!
Image to be added soon
20.1.2014.
Tone
Ruth was seated with spotlights pointing at her body and fabric draped over the seating.
Nikki told us to draw with a wax candle and show tone with use of watered down black Indian
Ink.
Bit of a disjointed day as the External Assessor was here to check our work, so Nikki was in
and out so left to our own devices.
I found this exercise really difficult, on reflection I didn't relax enough, and panicked about the
outcome, produced 4 drawings instead of sticking with the first.
I was probably over-thinking it in terms of measured drawing and accuracy.
Getting my head around working backwards in my opinion, light to dark tone, not being able to see my outlines in wax, I much prefer shading with pencil.
I also didn't dilute my ink enough and would in future have a at least 3 pots with varying amounts of diluted ink.
I need to try this again maybe to 'get it' !
Images to be added
We then tried Reversing Out with Willow Charcoal and an eraser. We had once practiced this copying our own chosen image.
I think I didn't size up as too into the reversing out dark to light process with eraser stokes for
line and light tone and the fact that we chose part of the body. (Question how to size up part of a
body?)
I needed therefore to size up and adjust later and it still wasn't in proportion when I had to finish.
Image to follow
