Hi there Fala -- Thank you for your suggestions and kind comments. :=)
I don't intend to go back and try to correct the life drawings I post. The drawings are merely quick sketches which try to capture the gesture of the model, as well as the lighting. I tend to draw with materials which are a mess to try to erase anyway -- this is part of forcing myself to concentrate on what I'm drawing -- I'm actually trying NOT to erase things once I put them down on paper.
With life drawings (at least in the venue in which I am doing these), you have a limited amount of time in which to capture the model's pose (poses run from 2 to 15 minutes), so you have to work very quickly. If a drawing doesn't work, then I make a mental note of what I screwed up and move on to the next pose. I'm actually a lot more interested in doing quick 2-minute gestural drawings than long, studied poses, but unfortunately the artist who runs these drawing sessions prefers to do longer poses. Even then it's still pretty hard to do a good drawing in only ten or fifteen minutes.
Part of this exercise of drawing from live models with a time limitation is to force me to focus and make quick decisions in regards to the drawing and I am more interested in the spirit of the drawing rather than doing a photographic-perfect drawing. I'm going for a more Impressionist feel rather than Photo-Realism (in fact, I really dislike Photo-Realism).
I do admit that I'm rusty, having not actively drawn like this for at least two and a half years. Back then, I was doing 11"x17" acrylic figure paintings in twenty minutes. I'm out of shape and not back up to speed yet, but I hope to be eventually. :=)
I don't intend to go back and try to correct the life drawings I post. The drawings are merely quick sketches which try to capture the gesture of the model, as well as the lighting. I tend to draw with materials which are a mess to try to erase anyway -- this is part of forcing myself to concentrate on what I'm drawing -- I'm actually trying NOT to erase things once I put them down on paper.
With life drawings (at least in the venue in which I am doing these), you have a limited amount of time in which to capture the model's pose (poses run from 2 to 15 minutes), so you have to work very quickly. If a drawing doesn't work, then I make a mental note of what I screwed up and move on to the next pose. I'm actually a lot more interested in doing quick 2-minute gestural drawings than long, studied poses, but unfortunately the artist who runs these drawing sessions prefers to do longer poses. Even then it's still pretty hard to do a good drawing in only ten or fifteen minutes.
Part of this exercise of drawing from live models with a time limitation is to force me to focus and make quick decisions in regards to the drawing and I am more interested in the spirit of the drawing rather than doing a photographic-perfect drawing. I'm going for a more Impressionist feel rather than Photo-Realism (in fact, I really dislike Photo-Realism).
I do admit that I'm rusty, having not actively drawn like this for at least two and a half years. Back then, I was doing 11"x17" acrylic figure paintings in twenty minutes. I'm out of shape and not back up to speed yet, but I hope to be eventually. :=)
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