Theres been a couple of trips to the seaside, a Robin Hood day at Brokers Wood, playground trips, bike rides and two new pet baby Guinea Pigs to get to know!
Robin Hood and Maid Marian
Meet Sparkles...
and Fluffy...!
So what better way to get going again than by a six hour all day life drawing workshop! This was at a new studio in Salisbury run by two great tutors with quite different approaches - the morning was tutored by animator Matthew Dean, and the afternoon by fine artist and illustrator Sean Slater who taught me a huge amount about life drawing a couple of years back and really put me on the right track.
I was painfully rusty and out of sorts, especially after driving an hour to get there, but it was a brillant workshop and a lot of information went in even if not much of anything decent came out of the pencil!
These were the best of them over the six hours starting with some very quick warm ups ranging from 10 seconds to about 3 minutes...
10 seconds for this one!
2 minutes
30 seconds
1 minute
1 minute
10 seconds and 1 minute I think
30 seconds
Sorry about my scrunckled up paper, hope you can still see what's going on!
This scruffy one below I really struggled with because it was so hard to see what was happening beneath her long hair, but both tutors seemed to like it for some reason that's beyond me, so I'll leave it in!
And finally two slightly longer poses about 30 minutes each to end the day on with mixed results...
I'll be back soon with some WIP's for you if all goes well - a time stasis machine would help though!
What cute little forest models!
ReplyDeleteYour sequential, multi-figure gestures (on the wrinkled paper) are my favorites. Strong, decisive lines, Carrie.
Great drawings! I love the 30 sec one and the moving series... what a great idea...
ReplyDeleteI often find that my less "worried" life drawings - ie fussed over longer poses - turn out the best.
Happy autumn to you :)
Good to see you back... I really like that drawing of the figure moving through space and time, interesting to have an animator's take on teaching drawing, fascinating. The new critters look cute, love the name Sparkles!!
ReplyDeleteThanks folks! Feels like I've been gone ages...! It's great you all liked the moving series of poses, they were such fun to try and after a frenetic blast of 10 second and 30 second poses the one minuters seemed like all the time in the world! I would like to try a bit more of that... :)
ReplyDeleteThe girls look like they will have lots to tell when they return to school, they seem to have enjoyed their holidays.
ReplyDeleteA really interesting day, I liked the squence of movements across the page. I also thought the the sketch of sitting woman, with her smudged hair and head leaning on her hand, captured her so well. Enjoyed seeing it all.
millyx
What a productive workshop! I also like the woman with the long hair - I think actually the mass of hair and the face not visible poses questions which make the picture interesting and thought provoking . . .
ReplyDeletePomona x
I thought I'd left a comment...guess not. It's been rather like that lately...
ReplyDeleteLovely to see your drawings. They're really good. The movement ones are incredible. An excellent exercise and you've executed it beautifully.
Sounds like you've had a great Summer. Your little ones must be thrilled with the new additions to the family.