So that’s it. Thirty six hours on one drawing.
life drawing
Nearly there: Sight size 5
Out of the grey, into the dark: Sight size 4
Starting at the top of the head, and working down. Adding dark and light to the head. The form starts to emerge.
One shade of grey: Sight size 3
A thin line between light and dark: Sight size 2
Get fit and draw: Sight size 1
Off to the London Atelier of Representational Art to learn “sight size drawing”. One day a week for six weeks. Six hours a day. That’ll be thirty six hours working on one drawing.
Here’s the result after six hours on the first day.
Life drawing catch-up
Life drawing
Watching the detective
A nice twist to our usual life drawing poses: the model was dressed in trenchcoat and hat, giving a Forties’ detective feel.
This is the same pose as the first drawing, drawn immediately after it, but the model seems to have slumped a bit — or I got the proportions wrong.
Another pose. Lots of linework with a hard pencil and a soft pencil; smudging to create tone; and then lifting out the lights with a putty rubber.
It makes an interesting change to draw a clothed model: there’s a suggestion of a story; a reason why the model is there.
Each pencil on paper, approx A3.
Life drawing/linocut
I made a linocut of one of my drawings from one of our recent life-drawing sessions. Keeping it simple: just black and white.
Linocut, 18 x 18cm.