Why keep a Sketchbook? This is a very good question. At the moment I keep 3 different sketchbooks – each for a different reason. Way back at art school I was always told to keep a sketchbook and you will find virtually all art teachers will tell you the same. So there must be a […]
Be warned – drawing, particularly life drawing, can catch you by surprise and never let you go. It can turn your life upside down and fill every spare moment if you let it. That’s brilliant – and the rewards are great because the challenge is so great! I caught the bug at art school and […]
Week 4 Time to re-enforce the process of observational drawing – well the way I think is best – and I guess all teachers have ‘their way’ of doing things. But – I always tell students to take what I’m teaching and find ways to make it their own – ways to incorporate the techniques […]
Week 3 Through all the years I have taught adults life drawing one of the most common things people struggle with is how to represent the 3D human form with structure and depth on paper. So drawings often look flat and lack substance – as if there’s no skeleton or muscles. The human form is […]
Week 2: This session was all about the mainstay of good observational life drawing – how to measure. Daunting for some, hated by others and loved by the few. Whichever way you look at it it’s the only way you can check to see if proportions and angles are correct. The eyes do funny things […]
Week 1: The start of this course got off to a great start with Gesture drawing. My all time favourite drawing exercise to help students, and artists alike, learn to get a feel for the pose, feel the sense of movement inherent in all poses (even seated) and try to capture the real essence of […]
Week 2 Everyone was excited to get started this week and we began by discussing the Formal Elements to help students identify them in the Julie Mehretu’s drawings we were using for inspiration to help develop the group drawing we are working on. We continued to develop the group drawing further before continuing with one […]
Finally got to attend Ian’s peer life drawing session after ages of not being able to go. Started working on a new direction – trying to move from drawing to a more painterly style. Here’s what I ended up with by the end of the day. I like the idea of working somewhere between drawing […]
