I've not made it along to life drawing for a few weeks so I thought I'd better get back into practice with some gestures! I drew these from images at Line of Action, using the 30 and 60 second timers.
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Life Drawing, 24th October
Moving for work has meant I've had to search for another life drawing class ... thankfully this last week I found one! It's a great little group and the model this week, Helen, came up with some lovely poses. It'll be good to get back into regular classes again.
Show Jumping Horses
I keep mentioning on this blog that I want to do more drawing from life, so when the stable I've begun riding at advertised an informal show jumping event I went along to sketch the participants. At the beginning it was hard to put more than a couple of lines down,...
Intense Elsa
Yesterday I sketched Elsa as she chewed on a toy. Occasionally she'd bring it over to me and dump it at my feet before retreating across the room to stare at me. She usually wore an accusing look at this point – “What, you haven't thrown it yet?” I'm a bit unsure...
Horses
I've been referencing horses for a project, so I've spent some time drawing them in order to figure out how they work. Using Line of Action I did some quick gestures, and then I searched for various images through Google to sketch in more detail. The hooves are...
Ballet Gestures
I thought I'd push my gesture skills a bit and try drawing from moving figures, so I pulled up some ballet videos on YouTube. Very difficult, but good fun!
Life Drawing, 24th
I moved in late November last year and it's meant I haven't been to a life drawing class since then. Thankfully earlier this week I was able to go again!
The Life of Birds
Today I attempted some gesture drawing from an episode of The Life of Birds. As I reached the end of Planet Earth II last year I realised I really should have had my sketchbook out. It's good training for cafe gesture drawing, which I'm normally pretty hopeless at. As...
Gestures
Some more gestures from the other day. The hands and feet were all 30 second poses, the figures were all one minute poses.