Life was the thing that used to be my strongest skill. I'd do it everyday after school and draw different things. HOWEVER, all that has changed due to misunderstandings between *ahem* 'real artists', stressed out teenage moments and sometimes pure laziness.
Now I have to attend life drawing lessons for my course which, to be honest, I'm really happy and excited about. Not only am I going back to a thing I love, but now I have no choice but to work in the real world and not look at a screen all the time.
I don't think everyone has heard of the mark making exercise before (or at least I think that's what the name of the exercise is, I can't remember), but the aim of it is to make lots of marks on a piece of paper with said material, and then another person looks at your marks and tries to make a drawing out of it.
The first drawing is the piece of paper I made the marks on. Apparently the marks you make in this exercise is supposed to symbolise what goes on in your head. In that case my mind is full of existential crises, because the person who made a drawing out of my marks saw a giant sharp-toothed monster that looks like the Alaskan Bull Worm from 'Spongebob Squarepants', demons getting on a boat to some sort of rainbow and Kirby watching over the madness. A very creative but messed up masterpiece indeed.
The one below it was the marks I turned into a drawing. The marks to me looked like an establishing shot of a theatre. To make things a little more interesting, I added people into the drawing on the balconies, including a girl looking over everyone and the main stage. I believe I used the angle to my advantage and the ending result looks decent! However someone did tell me that it looked like a shopping centre so…it's now a theatre with a Debenhams in it.
A technique we learnt was to draw 3 lines that represented the pose of the body and then build around that. As much as I would do it if i was asked to, I'm not a fan. I'm just so used to drawing one section of the body to the other and adding little details as I go along! It's how I was taught to draw life.
The first rough sketch of the boy went successful when it comes to the body. The proportions are correct and the creases looks realistic as NO item of clothing would look smooth in a pose like that! The face on the other hand I wasn't so pleased, since face proportions was my weakest ability in life drawing. The facial features look too small and I have no idea what's up with his mouth!
The second patch of rough sketches was my attempt at the 3 line technique, which in my option is like drawing stick men. I have to admit, though I don't like using it, the technique actually works! If you're starting out on life drawing, I suggest you try this stick-man rip-off and try to carry on from there. Although, since I was only drawing lines, it did get confusing to figure which line was the arm or leg etc. if any of them overlapped. Also the little full life drawing at the bottom is the same of the other one. The body and pose proportions I'm really happy with, but the facial features (though you can't see them now because they're blurred out) are small and ugly and just what wasn't on the face.
Cecil here (or Cecilia since it's apparently a girl) has some broken bones to her as the structure kept falling apart as we were drawing. Nevertheless, I got to draw her spine which is hard but not impossible. The real hard part for me was the proportions. I couldn't think for my life how to fix this drawing when I saw that the ribs were too wide, the leg bones too long and thick and the pelvic bone a confusing mess. Despite my struggle it still looks like a skeleton, which was what I was aiming for and I succeeded so that's what matters! The spine was the same length as the real one and though I could do nothing for the skull, you can still tell it's the back of a skull due to the mouth area looking very bone-like. Also the shading on Cecil (ignore the smudged leg area) looks subtle and nice.
Life drawing has been proven quite hard after not doing it for a long time (Surprise, surprise) but I know it is expected of me to make a lot of mistakes at first. Because if every drawing I did was perfect, why am I even on this course?
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