One pose four drawings

100 Day Project Day 55

I spent a couple of hours doing figure drawing practise today. I chose one pose from the Figure Drawing Studio CD and used it as my reference. There’s a lot of foreshortening in the pose, so it’s a good challenge for my brain to try and render what I am seeing versus what I think I want to see.

I started out with some mars black acrylic and a round brush, and made a couple of sketches in my A4 cheapie sketchbook. The first sketch (r) is a better representation than the second sketch (l), although the head is nae right in either. We’ll call that intentional distortion.

With the same pose, I went to my wee 9x14cm sketchbook that I use for fineliner sketching.

I really love the way that different materials, and sketchbooks, can give different results. I love scratching away with the fineliner, making bad lines I can’t remove, until I get close to where I’m happy.

Now, a wee while back I had a sketchbook buying frenzy, and the hilarious thing is after deciding I could not live without them, three of them remain blank. Until today. I pulled out the big A3 casebound one and propped it up on my table easel, and then picked up a hard charcoal pencil, for more scratchy fun.

I’m interested in the way the 9x14cm sketchbook is now a comfort zone, where the ratio and the pen are familiar, and the way my brain has to work to do essentially the same drawing on a much larger page.

I didn’t time these sketches, so I didn’t notice how long they took, but maybe I’ll do some timed exercises with the same reference tomorrow.

A good day.

Til the morn,

Suzanne