Digi Life Drawing!

So l am still getting over the excitement of finally getting my Modbook [yay!!], so l brought it to life drawing today and Bobby did a demo with his tablet pc for digi painting, so I decided to jump in & start trying to use Photoshop as more of a painterly approach. I kept each drawing on one layer & tried mostly blocking in tones & shadows with colours. By the end of class, l felt like I was just starting to get into it. And with 10 minute poses, the time kept flying by!

l can't wait til this summer to continue the experimentation!

Caffe-teria

Yesterday in life drawing, Bobby moved our regular class from the model room, to the cafeteria. Time to caricature our fellow Sheridan-ites! Always good times.... my fav was the lady at the top. I dub her Eleanor. I believe she was posing just for moi. :)

Life drawring... round 3!

It seems so far for me, that a lot of the classes in this third year have a common theme:

Back to basics!

Which, honestly, I can REALLY use! After a while of building up new skills and techniques and styles, when you go back to doing something super simple, it's like, "Wait – what?? I don't know what I'm doing!!"

This term we have Bobby Chiu to lead us in his life drawing wisdom... and so far, I am muchly enjoying his lessons! It has filled in a lot of blanks for me, and I think will help heaps as I continue to grow on this meandering journey of being an artist.

Bobby also created a blog for us third year-ers to post our life drawrings. Good idea!
If you feel so inclined, take a gander: http://lifedrawers.blogspot.com/

Here's some notes I took the first week back, it was really helpful for me on how to simplify profiles, especially when you go to do caffe drawings and such.

The first thing Bobby made us do was 5 1-min poses, back to back – ay, but here's the catch – we could NOT look at our paper the entire time. Believe it or not, it really helped to monitor proportions, and also to JUST concentrate on seeing the model, and drawing what you see. Not what you see on your paper. I attached the end result for fun :) What do you see? Maybe it could be used as one of those Rorschach tests!


First week was about structure. He told us to think of the figure as a tree, how is the trunk positioned, how are the branches... just look at the shapes and try to not think of it as a person. Very helpful! Here's a couple from the first week: [yep, I felt rusty!]



This past week was about how things fit together. Not necessarily in an anatomy form, but how would you construct a person if you didn't know how things were put together? Hence my drawing above. She looks like she got some attitude.

Onward and upward!