Week 6 Life Drawing and movement

Drawing Movement

We started off with some basic proportional sketches and warm up exercises, I think I hit the proportions quite well and felt ready for drawing motion.

 Our first exercise involved drawing our model performing a sort of push up/stand up motion in loop. I found it extremely difficult to sketch and actually start on drawing a position without the model altering her posture too much, but obviously this is the challenge of motion. As you can see I got slightly frustrated whilst sketching these positions.

Next up was a walk cycle whilst the model held a long ruler posing as a spear, I did better on this task in comparison to the last as I actually got some decent form on to the page. However it still feels like its just four different static poses on the page instead of a fluid cycle of movement.

In our final segment of the session we moved on to prolong drawing (non-motion). I decided to focus on hands and feet, most people say hands are difficult to draw, but I think feet are much more difficult just due to the strange shape of the angle and curvature of the foot sole. I really utilised shading in this sketch as the model had dirty feet from where she had been walking around, this actually developed black on the bottom of the feet which helped me shade the toes, heel and the joints of the feet.

Then I moved on to sketching a fist, I always start out drawing hands with a base construction drawing of a pentagram shape to frame the fingers and thumb joint on. This base drawing is crucial to getting proportions right and avoiding typical hand drawing mistakes.