We started the session with a few one minute poses. With this in mind I drew out a shoulder hip and foot line, with a guide for seven and a half heads at the side. The average human is seven and a half heads tall with the proportions of the top half of the body nearly equal to the length of the legs.
Obviously with some of the poses the model was leaning over, I had to take this into account when sketching out the pose. I find that it helps to build the form from a series of shapes, if this is sketched lightly then a more realistic sketch can be built up over the top of this. Bearing in mind that we only had one minute to sketch each pose I think that my illustrations are fairly successful.
My first sketch as seen here was a little bit stiff and lacked life. As I continued with the other poses, I tried to compensate for this by using curves in the building shapes.
With the five minute poses I began to struggle once the basic pose was down on the page, as I am not a competent illustrator. Shadows and highlights seemed to allude me and I did not know where to start with shading techniques. Despite this I managed to improve on the line sketches as each pose presented its self, giving more flow to the sketched form.
We were given longer poses during the session, the one displayed here was thirty minutes. I have included this in my examples as it was one of my better sketches from the session. The shading displayed is minimal at best but I was beginning to understand how shadow and light effected the form, pushing these areas with loose pencil marks and smudging them with a finger for softening.
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