Costumes and nudes

On Monday we get a taught life drawing class all day from 10am to 5pm (with one hour break). It's very good. However, this Monday the model didn't turn up in the morning so we had volunteers from the class to pose. Below is one of the students from two angles. We had three models and drew each from different angles. Then we had to use our imagination and draw them in new positions and/or from different angles. A good excercise.

In the afternoon a girl turned up who had never modelled before. Carlos (the tutor) got her to wear a dress from about 1850 or so, lots of frills. This was done with brush pen and a pencil for lighter shading.


This morning was unsupervised life drawing where a model comes in and organises the class her(or him)self, although we can suggest poses if we want. I tried a few different ways to draw her this time. I think all of these were 5 minute poses... maybe the last one was longer.

Charcoal


Contti pastel and brush pen.

Two Contti pastels and brush pen (what a difference!)


Brush pen.