Life-drawing from over the past couple of classes. Some really great exercises we did in class to make us really think about what we were doing and re-train how you're looking at what you're drawing: 30 second, 1 minute sketches are great pre-studies which really help you to loosen up physically and have a more realxed approach. It's really more about capturing a gesture/line of action rather than an accurate drawing.
After doing the left-handed studies during the warm-up exercises, I found when it came to do longer poses I was starting from the bottom up! Which felt extrememly weird. For some reason it didn't feel comfortable to start from the facial features, working my way around and down! Which I normally do. For both the drawings above I started from probably the most awkward angle-the one on the right, after roughly sketching the overall pose, I started from the armpit and worked my way out and up. The one on the left was started from the hands.
Monkey Man!! I really enjoyed this though. This was a semi-blind drawing. It was roughly a 7 minute drawing, I had glanced at it to find my place maybe about 4/5 times throughout.
These were the warm-up exercises. We were asked to draw with our "non-writing hand" (!). I felt these were really alot stronger than my right hand. My expectations were low of my left-handed drawings, so I just went for it. My right handed drawings were weaker after doing this exercise, I was too concious of creating a good drawing, it really stopped me from observing wel.
