Life Drawing Week 1

Posted by Avner Engel in Sketchbook

Today I had my first life drawing class. it was absolutely amazing, as soon as I started stroking lines on the blank sheet of paper  it felt as if all this massive creative barrier I had in my brain just popped and unblocked itself. It was such a wonderful feeling. Being able to invest yourself into it is something I found very rewarding.

The class was divided into three parts. When we started we had the model changing poses every couple of minutes or so, then we had to draw her and every few minutes move to the next eazel and continue the drawing that the person next to you started.

To finish the class we were given around 45 minutes to draw and shade the model. At that moment I had a pretty being realisation; a drawing is like a recipe, you need to know what ingredients to add to it so it will taste nice. I found that in a drawing you need to know when to go broad, and when to slow down, when to pull back and look at what you are missing, proportions, volume and shape.

Anyhow, it was pretty cool to have that ‘ah-ha’ moment cause I heard so much about ‘each line needs to make a statement’ and so on and so forth but today I think I finally got what it means.