luvin’ lyf drawin’
Last week I had the pleasure of drawing the lovely fifty
something somewhat stature lacking, but no less manly Grantham, in all his
naked goodness.
We started off with a few five minute sketches to warm up
and ended with a couple of long twenty minute
poses on Grantham’s part, and some somewhat sketchy attempts to recreate his Achilles-like
(albeit pot belly) poses by me.
Just to warn you, except for drawing a few bowls for my
sisters GCSE coursework, I’ve not actually taken pencil to paper for a while, so
they’re a bit rough around the edges.
Here are some of the results..
(what a
stud)
Life drawing is such a cathartic activity; settling into the
groove and sketching away. The human figure is one of the most enduring themes
in visual arts with line and form of the human figure as the primary objective,
rather than the subject person, and focus being on the shapes and negative
space created. Similarly with
portraiture, although in that case there tends to be more focus upon the actual
subject, however I still love using the face, with all its sections and lines
to create art.
I focused a lot on portraiture
last unit, exploring the face and themes of recognition; looking at the medical
condition ‘Prosopagnosia’ more commonly known as ‘face blindness’. I think I’ll
save that post for later..
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