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 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 […]
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 […]
