A few of my life drawing sketches from today i mainly tried to focus on sketching in the proportions and shapes of the body as quickly as i could to then focus on the detail. I found it challenging when the model would be sitting or laying facing towards me so i had to work around shortening the body while still keeping it in proportion. Although after i did the laying down pose and went to a stood up pose i found it more difficult to draw the model face on as i couldnt work as much with depth.
I think the proportions worked quite well with this pose and i managed to get the body angle okay, the models head was looking far to the right so i dont think i got that down very well and couldve drawn in some of the face to show the angle of it more.
The pose was facing mostly towards me so i couldnt see the rest of the body as much just mainly the front of the face and arms. I managed to scale the body down towards the end to show perspective although at first i made the leg thicker than the arm so i had to correct this. I also tried to avoid going too dark with my mark making towards the end as it needed to be darker towards the front. I got some of the lines in that went around the body like down the back and around her hip, John recommended that i join the lines to split the body into shapes to give it a better sense of depth and it think it looks a lot better, it makes the body look more realistic and gives it shape.
For this one i thought i would struggle with the position of the right foot as it was angled away and flat on the side of her foot but i think it went okay and looks how i wanted it to. I tried to mark in the lines of light and dark instead of blending them i made them look quite graphic and contrasting. The shadows look quite bold im not sure if i like it or not, other sketches ive done with this technique have worked our alright once theyre finished and look quite dark and contrasting against the white paper.
It was really challenging going from being use to drawing the female figure and shape to then drawing a man. At first i was still in that frame of mind and drawing the figure like a woman which took a while to get out of it. Its really helped to give me experience with drawing different people and gives me a variation of models to put in my portfolio. I prefer drawing with simple lines and shading becuase if i start to do more i always seem to make it look too heavy and it all blurs into one. I need to practice a lot more with shade and using it with depth and foreshortening. The first three were my first drawings which didnt go well, the basic shapes are okay but i dont like the tone i used or shading. I think i worked well with the foreshortening in the first picture although i could of made the foot bigger and used the tone of shading the help with the depth of the image.
