Life Drawing

After missing the provided life drawing classes earlier in the year my lecturer advised me to create some life drawings in my own time to make up for me missing the lessons. Initially I elected did two drawings, one of a still image of my front room in my house and another from an object, my cat. However these two images were of very subpar quality and needed very large improvement. My lecturer offered me some welcome guidance in how to better create life drawings, giving me an impromptu lesson on line quality, pencil quality and drawing techniques.

This greatly helped me in understanding how to better create my life drawings and decided to try again using several of my classmates as models for my next attempt. Remembering what my lecturer had told me about keeping the pencil sharp and the lines light and quick I sketched out three different drawing of my classmates in different positions which turned out far better than my previous attempts.

From these new drawing my lecturer advised me that I was beginning to get onto the right path in the correct drawing techniques and now needed to go in further to create a finer detailed and sharper image, paying more attention to the correct proportions and shading to give a better and more finalised image. For this final image I used another of my classmates and spent more time going into more finer detail and taking my time getting the drawing right. After it was done the final image was far clearer and detailed than my previous attempts and my lecturer confirmed that this final image was a big improvement on my earlier messier drawings.

Overall I am pleased that I got the chance to improve my drawing skills more and managed to make up for the missed lessons. If I were to do it again I would greatly enjoy going to the lessons to further increase my drawing skills and create better and more detailed drawings. From this I will plan to further practise my drawing in my own free time in order to make up for the time missed and even out my drawings into something more useable in industry practise.