life drawing

Yep, it’s been a while … but I haven’t stopped drawing.

Life drawing is back on the menu, I go to weekly life drawing sessions and have started teaching at an evening session again — 9 times each semester.

Urban Sketching in cafés is still my thing, I love the clutter, the people, the contact with real people and the anxiety of perhaps being “caught at it”.

This semester, I attended a weekly drawing class, where I started to switch to watercolours and then eventually moved back to my felt tip brushpens.

Here are a few galleries of what I’ve been up to lately. These are galleries, which you can activate by clicking on a pic and then move around the pictures with the cursor, like on a carousel. To exit, just press the “Esc” button.

So, here are the life drawing sessions, one evening, one page 🙂

Then we have urban sketching in cafés and a few stuffed birds at the museum. And then some of my fellow attendees at the drawing class I was going to.

Finally, we have … a portrait I painted/drew, while at a drawing event in a fellow artist’s kitchen, and two more exercises from the drawing class I was going to.

My third semester of giving life drawing classes starts today … and people don’t pay for me to tell them, “Draw figures for 4 years and keep up the daily practice.” (Although, I do mention that in the breaks, if somebody is so foolhardy to ask.)

That’s why I attempt to set up a curriculum every semester.

As last year I heard quite often (even if only from a few individuals) that they had been expecting more anatomy, I’m introducing more anatomy (even if I’m not the expert). I may have a few clever insights for the one or other and we can learn from each others mistakes.

Here’s the plan for the 10 week course:

Explore proportions
Gestural drawing, finding rhythm
Ribcage and pelvis
Shoulders, arms, hands
Legs, bottom, feet
Perspective for life drawers
Portrait, the face, the head
Light and shade
Blind drawing, contours
Facial expression

The topics currently fit very well to the models I’ve managed to get in advance and every session has a different model, which I think is grand.

To finish this post off, here are some of my latest gesture drawings, I have now drawn gestures for way over 500 hours. I started slowly in August 2014. I now often draw longer (90 second) poses, but this morning I tried out 45 second poses again.