Life Drawing - Model 1

Life Drawing with a Model - 1

For our first week of drawing with a model, we focused on loosening up and getting used to working with a nude model. We used different graphite pencils for all of this session, simply focusing on proportions and different ways to draw. 

For the warm up tasks, we were asked to create multiple drawings of the model in different ways. Using our wrong hand, taping our pencils together, using both hands, and drawing by memory are just a few examples. This was a really fun page to do, it helped me warm up and not focus or worry about drawing details of the model.

For our next task, we were asked to draw parts of the figure, using frames. We had free reign on how we did this page, as long as we had multiple drawings of different body parts. I chose to explore many different areas, using tonal and sketchy techniques to experiment with shading and depth. I love the two tonal drawings as the top, both having minimal detail but holding alot of depth. I really don't like the circular frame of the model's face, as I feel it was very rushed and overall the worst of them all. I did redo it from a different angle on the top right, of which I liked alot more.

The third page was full of gestures, where the model was asked to pose in gestural, fluid motions and we had to draw them in multiple different ways once again. Of the first three quick sketches, I love the third one. It feels very proportionate and fluid in motion, yet with darker outlines to make it pop. The two drawings at the bottom of the page were created, one with no outline and the other by shading in an area and rubbing out the figure. These were fun exercises, but they aren't my style of creating. (↓)

For our last page, we were given longer time frames to create three separate drawings, just to draw the model and his surroundings. I really enjoyed the freedom of this exercise, and my choices in mark making to create each individual piece. My favourite is easily the middle drawing, as I feel the chair is bold and helps exaggerate the rest of the piece, including the light marks of the background. I could develop the three more by adding more marks to the models body and the background, to create depth and perspective. (↓)