Life Drawing 2

2nd Life Drawing lesson - 40 min pose focusing on tone

Life Drawing 1

1st piece from my evening life drawing class. 1/2 hour pose.

Drawing - Lesson 2

I really enjoyed yesterday's drawing lesson. Following on from our charcoal city scene experiment of last week, the tutor asked us to create a character that will reside in said city. There was a bush drawn with two eyes shining out from the dark. There was also a power plant fairly near by. My imagination starting working overtime and I came up with the character of a mutated squirrel! His backstory is that he is mutated from living/birth by the power plant, he hides in bushes and eats neighbourhood cats!

Our second task was to draw what our character would 'see' if they were looking outwards (a perspective exercise). I drew him from the perspective of being the two eyes in the bushes, looking outwards across the road at a cat (his prey) ambling along the pavement!

Drawing - Lesson 1

My first lesson in drawing consisted of discussing what icons made a city (e.g. skyscrapers, parks, roads etc.) and then drawing one on A3 paper. We then swapped seats (continuously)and proceeded to fill up around 8 pieces of paper. This eventually became a cartoon style city. We worked together to piece the sheets of paper into some sort of order and then grated charcoal and rubbed it into the scene to give it depth and create a 'smoggy city' feel. Erasers were then used to bring light and contrast through the charcoal.

The end result was very imaginative and it was great to see so many different styles of drawing at work. Our tutor suggested checking out William Kentridge as a relevant animator, who uses hand drawn charcoal. Below is a video example of his work.