I don’t have a model. Part of the reason for the huge pause in posting on my blog. It’s not ideal, but a solution, there are free web sights and YouTube videos of people posing as life models. The page I chose had a ‘class’ option which started off with 30 second warm ups. The results are below, my comments telling. So difficult to get any kind of result in such a short time.
I actually feel rather stressed trying to get down the right lines so quickly, there’s not even time to look at what your doing. The next poses are then one and two minutes respectively.
Given the time limit, a few of the results are not bad in terms of proportion.
I have a break from drawing and research for some advice for drawing from life. The advice is the same. Don’t start with the head, this I’m reminded from my art collage days when my pictures were always headless, unable to finish on time. I also learn’t I should try and model around the torso and spine, treating my subject as a solid three dimensional object, rather then just a series of lines.
Now I’m up to four minutes, then 6 minutes. I posed what I consider to be the best results. Let’s call them ‘happy accidents’. Somehow the lines came out just right.
The last images are 10 minutes. Less natural but I’m warmed up and feeling confident. I wrote in my notes that I had a breakthrough in terms of quickly mapping the positions of the torso and spine.
Putting this into practice, I make some longer drawings, completely dismissing the advice to not work in line.
Pencil then tried to add variety to my line with ink.
Pen and pencil.
I think this was the best effort in terms of proportion and capturing the gesture in just a few lines. I can see my inner illustrator needed a final image.
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