Male life model standing, back view, 2-minute pose © Janet E Davis 2011
I decided that I needed to sign up for the third block of untutored life drawing this year, even though I could not afford it easily. The idea of not drawing once a week was actually disturbing, and I still want just to draw people.
So, week 13 was the first in the third block of once-a-week sessions. This first one was a crowded one. I felt that I was not fully concentrating because I was very aware of all the other people. I was also a little twitchy about not being able to change position, or, at least, only being able to shift if I got in someone else’s way.
At the end of the session, I felt that I had produced some really dreadful drawings that were very out of proportion. I was rather cross with myself for letting the more crowded conditions distract me. Now I look at them in the photographs, they do not look anywhere near as bad as they looked on the evening I drew them. The last one, second of the 30-minute poses, is more unresolved than I would like, but it needed at least another 15 minutes because there was some slightly awkward perspective.
Male life model standing, front view, 30-minute pose © Janet E Davis 2011
The other thing about these drawings is that they look rather tighter than I would have liked. It is interesting how my tension and feeling of being more physically constrained in the space shows in the lines that I made.
I am still looking for a more suitable (and cheap) paper because I found that the charcoal and Conté are falling off the new paper that I got. I am also still thinking about where to go from this point in my drawings.
Do have a look at the full set of drawings from week 13.
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
Life drawing weeks 11 and 12 post
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