This week in life drawing, we did not have an available model so instead of the traditional plan, we attempted to draw some rather strange but interesting images that were projected on to each wall. The vast majority of these were photo shopped in unheard of ways, making it rather difficult to draw them, proportion wise. With ten minutes spend on basic outlines and then a following ten in most cases for shadowing, the vast majority of these came out quite successfully for the most part. Due to my new camera acting rather faulty, the colour scheme has been switched on some of the images, making for some rather amusing outcomes.
This is the first image i attempted which was a female bodybuilder, flexing her muscles but as we did not have time to revisit this one later on, there is only a basic outline drawn out on the page. I separated the page in to a grid after counting how many heads tall the woman was. Using this as a guide, i was then able to sketch the rough outline using black chalk/ charcoal.
In the second attempt, we were shown a picture of a man with muscles so large, it looked like he was made out of clouds. I used the same techniques as above to draw out the rough outline first in charcoal but due to the muscle mass, i was unable to finish the shading when we revisited the image. This also meant that all the fine details were left out which i would have otherwise added to give it more form.
This drawing did not go too well as i managed to mess up the proportions quite dramatically, but it is still fairly visible that it was a chalk and charcoal sketch of Iron Man. I think this one could have gone much better if i used the entire page but as i thought i may need to re-use the paper, i didn't see this as an option. With a bit of neatening up, i could probably salvage the sketch but his left hand would still require a fairly large amount of work.
The next drawing felt very alien as i had never drawn anyone from a drop down view, especially with the darkness of the image, making it incredibly difficult. Drawing the outline itself took me the full first ten minutes as well as about five of the second set, meaning that i was left with a relatively poorly shaded set of out of proportion characters. I did not judge the proportions correctly and more or less made an attempt to hope it would work. With a pencil, i could have salvaged this but due to the use of chalk and charcoal, it became practically a lost cause.
With the next couple of images, i attempted to save on paper space by fitting two drawings on each sheet. These two were rather strange with one being a woman's head combined with a dog's muzzle and the second being Dobby from the Harry Potter franchise. The dog/ woman combination was fairly difficult to draw as i struggle a lot on animal forms and faces, on top of this, human faces are generally quite difficult on their own. Overall, it did not go too badly but required a lot of tweaking. Dobby on the other hand ended up slightly out of proportion but still recognisable, especially with the shading an lanky limbs. The highlights worked quite well across both images, even though my camera turned them blue, giving them a much colder feel then they should have.
The final set of drawings followed the same layout as previously, with one being a strange adaptation between a man and a pig and the other being a fairly lanky alien creature. Starting with the alien creature, i made the proportions far too wide, making it look as if someone crushed him ever so slightly. on top of this, the shading did not go very well as i ran out of time, meaning that i was left with a rather mediocre drawing.
The pig man on the other hand turned out very nicely, being the best of the session. Starting with a grid, i sketched out the rough shapes with black charcoal. After this, i began highlighting so of the fat folds with shadow using my alternative colour which game me quite a nice basis. I was then able to re-go over the entire image with the black charcoal to add in all the extra details. After some finishing touches in my lighter colour,i could then call it finished. The only problem was his missing arm which i could not add due to the way i had originally drawn the body. Looking at the finished image, it does not seem too necessary though as the shading makes it look far more pig like and a little more laid-back.
Overall, i believe that this life drawing session has been one of the most successful, allowing us to touch up on areas that we otherwise would not have even thought of, especially with the strange, distorted figures and generally warped nature of the pictures.
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