Figure Drawing 1--the Gesture Drawing

I was going to add to the previous blog entry to expand upon "the gesture drawing" but instead I thought I would just give the topic its own space.

Our gesture drawings are timed.  We have a live model.  The teacher has a timer. 20 seconds or 30 seconds are about the length of the poses.  The model changes to a new position when the timer goes off.  I use vine charcoal on newsprint.  We do this for about a half hour, then we start doing longer poses.

Some of my drawings have the length of time, written on them, but they all should.  A gesture drawing is a loose capturing of the moment of the figure.  Details are omitted, as there is not the time.

No outline is allowed- one has to sort of scribble out a person onto the paper really fast.

I am not impressed with the ones directly below- too stiff

These are a little nicer- more movement is apparent. these are probably 30 seconds.

This might have been a ten second:

I like these below, but a little too outliney!

This one, in my estimation is a good one.

five minute--is below

Figure Drawing 1

In figure drawing we have a weekly assignment to draw a region of the body.  We also do gesture drawings observing from a live model. I have no photos of my gesture drawings- but will add later. Actually check the next blog.  I will share some of the latest work.

I was very fortunate to have a good angle for this pose! This one is not complete..we will work on it this week.

 This is a copy of a master- Michelangelo:

We were allowed to add a background.  I realized after that the mountain was placed wrong (the Matterhorn, so I "moved the mountain!"

My professor liked the background.  She thought that his lower legs and head are a little out of proportion.  So I got a 91 %..which is still good..probably will fix it.

She suggested darkened backgrounds--This is about the arm bones...

I really like this one!

Into the First Few Weeks of the Fall 12 Semester!

I have a heavy load this fall.  I am taking more credits than I have ever taken at once before!  The grand total is 16.  I have four studio classes. ( I started my college career at Ithaca college- then William Smith- then Flcc nursing..)

Figure Drawing:  She is a great teacher.  She is organized and she really cares.  She photo catalogs all of our work.  I have Sarah for 3 of the 4 classes.  We are learning the body and have a weekly assignment to draw muscles and bones.  So far I have tackled the clavicle, scapula, and shoulder muscles.  I copied Michelangelo's back muscles last night.  We are learning gesture drawings.  I am very happy to have her as my teacher.

this was timed- can't recall- from now on I am going to mark with time. I think it was 20 minutes.

Above- I need to fix his chin a bit- she recommends less outlining.(30 min)

30 min

I was planning on doing a blog entry about all the classes --but it would make for to long of a blog..will have to do an entry for each!