Life Drawing 2: Week 5 - 26th March

This week it was looking at the figure and how it relates to a bed.

15-20min Pose - A2 - Charcoal

15-20min Pose - A2 - Charcoal & Chalk

15-20min Pose - A2 - Charcoal & Chalk

Alan our tutor asked us to try approaching the figure by drawing from where we would think the central point was (instead of drawing the head and then working our way down). I found this quite interesting as it got me thinking more about the whole figure and not just everything relative to the head.

15min Pose - A2 - Pencil

15-20min Pose - A2 - Charcoal

20min Pose - A2 - Charcoal & Chalk

What did seem a bit odd was his comments on my work, to scale up my drawings so that the figure is not in isolation. Not so much the task itself that was odd but more so about his communication. This was the last week of Life Drawing for the semester/1st year so whether it seemed that I wasn't filling the page as much that day, it seemed quite an odd time to bring it up. He also meant not to worry about having the full figure on the page as long as it is big. The Life Drawing classes I attended before coming to ECA drilled into us to make sure to have the whole figure, and their method was to start at the head and use it to get proportions correct (classic 7 heads). So it felt a little bit against the grain to have this told to me when it was so near the end of the year.