Life Drawing

We began by filling a page of 4 quick sketches of the model in different poses, ranging from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. I chose charcoal as my media as I feel it is much more affective when creating light and shadow, and you are able to use a rubber to go back on it to create lighter areas for a more realistic composition. I like the way the charcoal smudges across the page. I enjoyed this given task, as I was able to be sketchy with it as we were given small allotments of time. I feel as if some of my achievements were successful and other were not so successful. For example, because we were working on table, I soon realised that I was making the body too stretched as I was looking at the paper at an angle. I attempted to overcome this problem but propping up the paper and trying to make the legs longer and the torso shorter. Doing this task, I have learnt how to create sketchy, yet accurate drawings, this will help me later when I want to make accurate sketches in a small amount of time. 

I used a ruler to make this sketch, and we were given 20 minutes to do this one. Using a ruler was helpful as I could use it to hold up in front of me to measure the placement of body parts. I enjoy using a ruler in sketchy work as it gives a kind of cubic effect. I think the unsuccessful area of this work is the fact that the legs are slightly too short and some other areas of the work appear to be out of proportion. I found it difficult to place the figure and make it appear as if it was in the room and not floating, I attempted to draw the tables in the background but I tend to find this particular area of drawings in general hard to do. I found the shading fairly easy and there was a strong light source in the room. 

I enjoyed experimenting drawing from different poses and different angles of the body, as it widened the range of drawings.
















We also attempted making some fashion illustration sketches. I enjoyed doing this as we were able to exaggerate parts of the body to make the clothes stand out more. We could also exaggerate parts of the clothing for the same affect. I attempted this in charcoal again, and then noticed the permanent markers were more effective in this case. When I got home I also tried it using water colour paints and working from models in different magazines and in different clothing and poses. I feel this was quite successful and I am quite pleased with the end result.