As promised, here are the last sketches for Week 2 of my life drawing class. These are both of Suzanne, on A1 size paper with a soft, dark brown chalk pastel. Fixative was cheap hair spray! (I bought Tesco's Own unscented, the theory being that if it's cheap it is also unscented, won't have conditioners etc, so will basically just be a coating.)
Both poses were completed in the one 40-minute session - I think around 25 minutes for the first one, which is more "finished".
This pose took around 10 minutes - I didn't get to finish in the time, which I am sorry about! You can see I had started with the shoulders set too high, and managed to adjust this before the session ended - but I would have liked to flesh the sketch out a little more.
Watch this space next week - it's another male model!
Each week, we leave the afternoon's work for the teacher to critique, so I have to wait until the next Tuesday before I get the previous week's work to take home. I think this is a ploy to stop us all either:
a) fiddling with it and perhaps spoiling it, OR
b) thinking it's totally awful and then binning it!
Actually, when I look at the previous week, I don't think it's as bad as my initial impressions - which gives me the courage and impetus to keep on. And post the work for you to see, unretouched and Warts & All, which I think is the best. I noticed in the course print-out that we are listed to do a complete painting... should be very interesting! I think I have a spot earmarked - a fairly large patch of bedroom wall - but it all depends on the model and the pose of course. And whether I could stand looking at it first thing of a morning (I am so NOT a morning person...)
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