Life Drawing - Movement

Quick observational drawings during movement. It was hard to capture the essence of movement in the drawings due to the difficulty of getting down the form and structure very quickly as the model moves around the studio. The drawings were done fairly quickly, but seems to fail to capture the walk/movement cycle, as I tend to focus on one part of the model to draw/study from, such as the head and part of the torso.

As usual I continue to concentrate on making short studies on one part of the model in various angles/perspective as the model loops around in her walk cycle. It was slightly hard to get as much detail and expressive marks to convey the structure in a very short time frame before the model moves out of perspective, though it was challenging to help me to remember as much as I can and to quickly draw them. 

Facial Expressions

Drawing faces was one of the things that I wanted to improve on, though one of the things that I tend to struggle on drawing was the facial expressions. I usually draw faces stylistically, though a good practice of drawing faces from life would help to explore the anatomy of the human face and the facial structures that help convey facial expressions. I struggled to draw the faces at first but I thought it would be best to break down the face and the expression into simpler shapes and lines to make things slightly easier to understand the form and shape rather going into detail.

Gesture - Poses

An experimental piece using Ink and a stick to create expressive mark makings for the life drawing session focusing on poses. Trying to keep the marks to a bare minimum so the illustration is not clustered/over saturated with a lot of markings and detail that would otherwise make the drawings look less expressive. Didn’t find it difficult although there are various poses I’m not exactly strong to draw out since the perspective or pose is not what I used to see/draw all the time, but at least this makes it a little more challenging rather than doing the norm in order to improve perspective.

Day trip to London Natural History Museum

A trip to London’s Natural History Museum and the V&A to draw from life as well as to explore the museums. As I have been there quite a number of times over the past few years, I never get tired of it, most of the time I end up looking at things I haven’t seen yet nor explore every part of the museum.

A sketch I had drawn from life which I later polished near the end of the trip. I didn’t want to spend a huge amount of time so I had timed myself to see how much I can get done, but I do want to take my time, and not to rush it for the sake of drawing it fast. Took me around 45 mins.