Life Drawing Week 1

 
This was my first ever go at life drawing, which was a very strange but good 2 hours of my life. My first attempt was good but restricting to me because I had never had a small time limit before and only having 3 minutes to draw each position, It kind of threw me off a bit but soon after I kind of got the hang trying to look more at the subject and not my paper. which doesn't sound like much but I found not looking at the page and looking more at the artist was really hard to do!! I wouldn't count these sketches some of my best work but the one on the bottom left isn't bad for a three minute sketch. Our teacher was trying to get us to see more of the subject and forget about what was on the page and see more of the subject, more than what we would of seen before.

Soon after our teacher then got us to try and keep our pencil on the page and don't take it off until the three minutes was up and I don't know about you but this was so hard!!! I just felt my drawing skills just when, I couldn't draw, It just wasn't normal. My first one ( on the top) was just terrible and I just couldn't do it, I couldn't understand. Then I tried again and to be honest I really like the hand I did with this technique, Because Its a style I just wouldn't do before and though I would but when I figured out just to slow down and take my time with the three minutes. Then I think it worked really well!!!.

 This was a very big fail of today, because this was way out of my confront zone and what we had to do was take one step in front of our canvas so we could see what we were doing and try to not to take our pencil off the paper and just try to do what felt right, and from what you can see, it went really well.......