Male life model standing, two 2-minute poses. © Janet E Davis 2011.
This was the fourth session of six, the tenth life drawing session that I have attended this year.
We were quite a small group this week. The nearby quayside had drifts of rubbish and marquees from the weekend’s Evolution Weekender Festival. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I had rather hoped that Iggy Pop might be hanging around still and offer to be our life model for the evening. Wow! How great would that be, to draw Iggy? A day of drawing him would be great, and possibly a little edgy, maybe a tiny bit scary.
Male life model, perched on edge of table. 20-minute pose. © Janet E Davis 2011.
Iggy was long gone, however, so we settled down to draw our usual male life model. The others opted out of deciding the types and lengths of poses, so I made the broad decisions – but checked with the others that they did not object, and with the model that he could hold the pose for the length of time required.
At the time, again, I thought that what I had done was utter rubbish – but pushed myself forward to try harder on each successive drawing. After I had photographed them and uploaded them onto the computer screen, I think that I got closer than I thought to what I was trying to do: keep the looseness and expressiveness of line whilst trying to build some sense of volume and mass.
But please take a look at all 7 drawings and decide for yourself.
Only two more weeks to go. I am not sure whether I shall be able to afford another set of life drawing sessions. I am also wondering what to do with all my drawings. I am a little reluctant to shred them all.
Further reading and more images
Links to pages of life drawings
More of my posts about life drawing
Life drawings 2011 [week 1] post
Life drawings 2011 week 4 post
Life drawings 2011 week 5 post
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