For this exercise we were to document an event in our sketchbooks, writing notes and sketching during the event.
Looking back to the 'Drawing on the familiar' exercise and how those drawings turned out, I feel like overall it went ok. I'm not great at drawing people quickly and sketching in public makes me nervous. I think I captured some of the body language well and the pencils I chose seemed to work well but on some of the drawings they look a bit pale. I think I work better with pen when working quickly and it stands out a lot more.
Since people sketching is my weakness and something I want to improve I decided to start taking life drawing classes again. I haven't done this since college many years ago. I do enjoy drawing the body and felt the practice would hopefully help me in future people sketching projects.
Due to the pandemic I am not going out much at all or seeing many people so I took the opportunity to take my first online life drawing class through OCA's Student association and 2B or not 2B Collective and use that as my event.
I was quite nervous and excited to do this since it was my first group activity together and like I said I haven't done life drawing in a long time. The theme of the class was dance and contortion so I knew the poses were going to be very challenging but I was looking forward to giving it a try.
There were many students doing the class and it was a great atmosphere. We spent an hour doing lots of different drawings, starting with warm up sketches and doing some longer sessions and sequences. I decided to use different pens and pencil for this and see which ones worked the best. My favourite drawings of the evening were definitely ones done in black fine liner pens.
As the evening progressed I think my drawings did improve, I still have a lot to learn and plan to take more classes this year to practice.
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