experimental drawing: Third session

Third session-

Life drawing. Male model

During this session with have experimented with various ways of drawing a live model.
This time, we did look at the paper as well as looking at the model. However, we did experiment with various ways of making marks: from line/contour drawing, to just shading, to drawing by using and eraser. We have used a few different mediums taped together to achieve a drawing that was both contour and shading in one go.

Here are the results of these exercises:

6 superimposed poses. I really liked this exercise, as the drawing achieved, shows clearly the movement of the model. It is very obvious that he started in a standing position and ended up, for the final pose, closed up on the floor.

For this drawing I have used 2 think charcoal sticks taped together, and a putty eraser to take away some lines, creating some shading at the same time. This was a 10 minute pose.

For this drawing, I have used: 1 compressed charcoal, 2 thin willow charcoals and 5 soft chalk pastels, all taped together. I really love the result of this. The yellow soft pastel, has given the impression of light on top of the model, while the darker colours (purple and dark pink, mixed with the charcoals, have given it weight, underneath.

This is the result of closing my drawing pad - my drawing bled on the opposite page, creating a faded mirror image.

This was a 15 min exercise, using shading only. I have used an orange soft pastel, and have started fro the inside and worked my way out, creating the overall shape of the model.

Again, the mirror image created on the opposite page. The reason I have included these images, is because I find them really interesting. They really look like ghost images of the original ones.

Initially, these were another 6 superimposed contour drawings, but, for an extra exercise, we had to add shading into it and see what it turns into. I quite like this. It does not look like 6 separate poses, but rather a creature with many limbs.

This is a drawing started from a black background (I have covered up the entire surface with charcoal), after which, I have used a putty eraser to add light and create the shape of the model.

And for the final exercise, we have been split in groups and we had to do a life size drawing of the model. Here a photo of the model in the attire worn. After spending a certain amount of time on our drawing (each doing a certain part of the body), we moved to another group's drawing and added detail to it, and so on. The result was actually surprisingly good.