For our first session of life drawing this year, I realised that I was a little out of practice. Completing the whole figure in the three minute poses became a huge challenge. Graphite pencils were my medium of choice, this is because I did not have much confidence in my unpracticed skills. This medium will be used until I gain some more confidence in the basic areas of life drawing. As you can see here, towards the end I began to get a little bit more comfortable but the proportions are still not 100% correct. If I want to improve my skills in this area, really need to find the time to practice regularly.
The fifteen minute poses I found, a little easier. I had the time to think about the motion curve of the pose and plan the drawing accordingly. I am quite happy with the way that these sketches turned out but of course there is always room for improvement and they are far from perfect. With fifteen minutes I feel like the sketch should be much more refined than what you see here. This means that I need to work on memory and recognition of symbols, so that I am able to plan out the sketch at a much faster rate.
When we got to the thirty minute poses, this is where things began to go terribly wrong. I really struggled with the reclining pose, it seemed that no matter what I did the figure would become elongated in the sketch. Giving this pose three attempts before becoming frustrated with myself, I then had to take a step back and try to relax a little. With the frustration of the first thirty minute pose I then began to put more pressure on myself which inhibited my drawing ability, as you can see in the second illustration here. This leads me to believe that I am a little too critical of my own abilities and need to relax a little more, in order to improve at my own pace.
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