I’ve recently moved back to Darwin from Katherine and was informed by my friends at DVAA that a life drawing group was starting up at the Art Space in Winnellie. We had our first session on Sunday, it was soooo good to get back into drawing again after a five month hiatus! If you are interested in coming along please contact the Darwin Visual Arts Association via their website to get the details.
Here are some of my drawings….
For the warm up exercises I usually draw multiple poses one on top of the other, wiping away the layers underneath as I go. These sketcheswere all done on the one sheet of butcher’s paper and drawn “blind”, that is, without looking at the paper at all, just looking at the model.
These drawings are five, ten and fifteen minute sketches, with some “blind” sketches combined with studies exploring the foreshortening of the face in the prone position. On the right is a more detailed drawing of a seated pose (this is the fifteen minute sketch).
This is a close up of the model’s face from one of the fifteen minute sketches.
This is one of the twenty minute poses with the model in a comfortable rest position. The beauty of using willow charcoal on butchers paper is the ease with which corrections can be made to the drawing. All of these drawings are started using a long paintbrush to measure angles and proportions, more detail and tone is added once these guidelines are in place.
This is a close up of the drawing of the model’s face, usually I squint whilst observing the model in order to see the large areas of tone clearly, then gently build up the features of the face using layers of charcoal.
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