Second session - Life drawing

Second session - Life drawing exercises

During this session with have experimented with various ways of drawing a live model. We have started off with drawing without looking at the paper, in 3 minute sessions, then we have moved on to alternate our right and left hand in 2 minute sessions, followed by trying various ways of drawing (using our mouth, extended arm - attaching a long piece of woof to our pencil or other medium used for drawing). Here are the results of these exercises:

2 minute pose, using right hand - pencil on paper

10 sec poses, alternating hands

left hand 10 sec pose

another 10 sec left hand drawing

10 sec right hand drawing

10 sec right hand drawing

10 sec left hand drawing

 The next exercise, was to draw, without looking at the paper, the model, in 2 minute poses, using our normal hand (right, in my case)

first pose

second pose

third pose

fourth pose

fifth pose

I hope I remember well, but I think the next exercise was to draw using the "windscreen wiper" method, meaning that we had to look at the model for 10 seconds, followed by looking at the paper for 10 seconds, and so on. the results of this are as follows:

This is my favourite drawing out of this session. It might be because it resembles the model, but, I think I have got the proportions more or less correct, and the pose is very obvious in my drawing.

A different pose drawn using the "windscreen wiper" method.

I'm not entirely sure about this pose, but I think it was the very first  one I have drawn using the Windcsreen wiper method.

This drawing was done using my right hand, with a brush dipped in Indian ink, and the method used, was pushing the  brush upwards, rather than letting it flow downwards, as usual.

This drawing was done in pencil, using my mouth instead of my hand. Interesting result.

This is was a 10 sec drawing done while everybody else was getting ready. The medium used was soft pastel on paper.

This was a 3 minute pose, done, using my left hand. Medium used was Indian ink on paper.

These are 6 poses super imposed. 

This was the 3 minute "extended arm" exercise. I have used a long piece of wood, to which, I have attached a large brush dipped in Indian ink.

Ultimately, we have been split in groups and we had to come up with a way of making drawing more difficult, in other words, experiment different ways we, as humans can draw.

I was in a group with Kate and Chris, and for this mini task, we have decided for Kate to look at the model and describe to me and Chris what she sees and give us instructions on where the line should go, while me and Chris had our arms taped together, were not looking at the paper we were drawing on, or  the model.
It was an interesting experiment and the drawings we have achieved through this, were sometimes better than expected, but I wouldn't say they ever looked like the model.

Here's some photos taken during the session to give a better idea of what happened.

me and Chris backing each other and looking away form the paper as well. Quite a funny experiment, as you can see:-)

I have used red marker pen, while Chris has used blue, in order to see  the difference at the end.

this is how we were drawing

preliminary discussion on how we were going to draw

first exercise complete :-)

For the second part of the same exercise we were asked to push ourselves a little bit more.  So me and Chris have laid some paper on the floor and crashed some charcoal onto it, so, at the same time as drawing with the hands, we were using our feet to spread the charcoal in the same direction Kate was indicating.
Here are the masterpieces achieved after the second exercise

2 arms taped together hand drawing

feet drawings

 For the third part of the exercise, we were asked to change the group dynamics,so after flipping the coin, me and Kate did the drawing while Chris did the observing/dishing out instructions. Both me and Kate drew with our feet. I had a ink dipped brush in between my toes and Kate has used charcoal.

on the left, is Kate's foot charcoal drawing, while on the right is my ink foot painting.