I had never taken part in a life drawing class before, and to be honest I was always quite scared of the thought of going to one. At first I was apprehensive but after the first couple of drawings I found it to be quite enjoyable. I am not the best drawer when it comes to proportion or accuracy but this workshop definitely helped with that, even if it was just a little bit. I know that I don't want to go into design because of this. However the workshop was useful for other things, such as working quickly. Each drawing was timed some quicker than others. I actually found that my drawings that were completed in the shortest time frames were my best, and the fact that I am not the most accurate drawer worked to my advantage.
I worked with lots of different techniques throughout the course of the day. These included not taking the pen of the paper [continuous line], drawing with your eyes closed [drawing from memory], drawing by looking at the model and not the paper and drawing with less used hand, which in my case was my left. I found working in continuous line to be the most interesting, and the whole point was that the drawing wasn't going to be completely accurate, so of course I wasn't worried about mine not being 'good enough'. However I was least fond of working from memory. I feel as though my best drawings are when I am working from a muse or inspiration, so I found it incredibly difficult to only work from memory, without even looking at the page.
Throughout the day I worked with a few different medias. Pencil, biro, fineliner, oil pastel and charcoal. I found charcoal to be the most interesting as I was able to give my drawing tone very quickly, whereas I had run out of the allotted time to do so when I was working with the other medias.
Over all I really enjoyed the experience and I definitely wont pass up the opportunity to take part again.
No comments:
Post a Comment