I've always wanted to be able to draw properly, so I've enrolled on a drawing course at the arts institute, Bournemouth, and today was the first day. This was a massive amount of fun! In the morning, we drew various still-life objects with pencil and soft-graphite, and then in the afternoon we drew a live model with charcoal. This was really hard work, over two hours, about ten of us, each standing with a large sheet of paper on an easil, drawing, shading, and smudging, in a semi-circle around Ellie, the model. You can see the result here.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Drawing
I've always wanted to be able to draw properly, so I've enrolled on a drawing course at the arts institute, Bournemouth, and today was the first day. This was a massive amount of fun! In the morning, we drew various still-life objects with pencil and soft-graphite, and then in the afternoon we drew a live model with charcoal. This was really hard work, over two hours, about ten of us, each standing with a large sheet of paper on an easil, drawing, shading, and smudging, in a semi-circle around Ellie, the model. You can see the result here.
I bet Ellie doesn't get out of bed at all some days.
ReplyDeleteI can appreciate that. it's why it's called artwork and not artplay. You'll learn to love charcoal, it's messy but forgiving.
ReplyDeleteI did have to re-draw the basic body-shape on mine, because my initial stab was out of proportion, so, in this sense, it is a forgiving medium.
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