Life Drawing

Towards the beginning of the year we did several different life drawing sessions.  The first was a new style of life drawing to me; the model walked around the room, and our aim was to try and depict every point and position as a whole on the paper.  This was confusing at first but we linked it to works such as Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp (below).

 

Below is my outcome from the exercise, and a close up of the detail. 

 

 

 

The second life drawing task was similar to what I'd done before at a Royal Academy workshop, where the model stayed in a fixed position.  We looked at some drawings by Alberto Giacometti for inspiration (I can't find them now though!)  The idea was to draw the outlines of the different planes of the body which, on the last week, helped us to paint the planes. 

 

 

 

 

Cathedral Drawing

One of my drawing tasks at University was to draw at Canterbury Cathedral, from observation, in pencil, using only lines.  I took this literally and used mainly straight, vertical lines.  Unlike a lot of other students I didn't focus on the whole cathedral but honed in on the pillars, though I changed the pillars I was looking at several times.