Maybe some of you remember my mentioning I wanted to sharpen up my drawing skills, as I haven't "drawn properly" for quite a few years! So I signed up for a short course at our local Adult Education Centre: one 3-hour session once a week for 10 weeks, and I have to say I am enjoying it hugely.
It was pretty scary, as I hadn't drawn for so long... but it soon came back! I started off drawing A3, then A2 and am now on full parent-sized A1 size sheets. It looks like I can't draw small! Each week, we have to leave the drawings for the teacher to critique, so I only just got these back otherwise I would have loaded them up earlier!
All the sketches are entirely unretouched, so you are seeing them exactly as I drew them, mistakes and all.
WEEK 1:
Studies 1 - 4 are of Ken, a 70-year old man, who was stooped, balding, with an endearingly squashy tummy. The first two sketches (001) are warm-up studies, each pose taking 5 minutes. The next two (002 & 003) show Ken sitting in a chair. Each pose took 15-20 minutes, and were drawn with black crayon. The next (004) is a back view using watercolour crayon, dampened down with a wet paintbrush, 10 minutes.
WEEK 2:
The model was Suzanne. The first pose (005) was a 5-minute warm-up study in pencil, and the next one (006) was drawn with dark brown chalk pastel. This one took around 15 minutes. Both these were on A2 paper.
I will load some more (the light was too bad to photograph the drawings properly - they are so huge, I had to stick them up on the back of the bedroom door). I think I can definitely see some progress!
Until tomorrow...
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