Life Drawing - Week 4

In the fourth week of my life drawing class we got through a lot more short poses than in past sessions. We literally had about 2-3 minutes to draw each pose, which is a great exercise for capturing the essence of a gesture - perfect for animators!



We had a couple of extra minutes with each of these poses:



I like how the structure of the class varies from week to week, it stops us getting lazy and falling into a pattern. Our tutor encourages us to approach each drawing with a different method, so that we're constantly exploring new routes to solving a drawing problem.

We finished off with an hour-long pose as usual:



This wek in particular, I've been trying to tackle the recurring problem I have with foreshortening, weight distribution and depicting mass with an economy of line.