Life Drawing In Colour!

Mob Squad / Simpsons reference ;)


Anyhoo, for the past two weeks we've been having what is referred to as our experimental lessons in life drawing class. This touches upon two of my biggest fears in drawing: mixing of media and colour! I can't wrap my head around colour, just can't do it. But god help me I try. 


We started off by warming up with a few 30 second gestures.

Following this we moved into mixed media. I found I got good results by doing my under drawings with a fine liner pen and then going in with oil and chalk pastels.

I like how all of these turned out, although I do regret not using a darker colour paper for the two bottom drawings. I hope to revisit this style later in the year.

As always, thanks for popping by :)

Some recent life drawing.

Update 23/10/11:  I didn't want to clutter up things with a new post for just two drawings so I think I'll pop them in here :)

Here's another contour drawing done semi- blind.

Here's an example of some scribble drawing where you only highlight busy areas on the body. We did quite a few of these but I found this one works the best in terms of proportion and structure.

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Right, an update is long overdue so here's some of my better pieces from my last few life drawing classes.

These first two poses were done semi-blind using pencil, on 22/09/11

These two were completed just this morning in a free-style class, also in pencil, 13/10/11.

I'll be making more of a conscious effort to update this blog regularly from now on, so stay tuned!

Life Drawing Submission for Year 2

More of the same from my second year. Progression? What progression?

Life Drawing Submission for Year 1

This post features my final submission Portfolio for my Higher Diploma in Classical and Computer Animation (Year 1).  Work circa May 2010.