Life Drawing

To become good at drawing, you have to practice – a lot!  My discipline for this comes in waves and my resolve wavers!  Sometimes I wonder why I seem not to be improving, or getting the results I want.  I’m hoping that joining John Creighton’s Life Drawing class will help things along.

Yesterday was the first session, and a busy class, Appleton Village Hall was full of ‘life drawers’.  It was a very intense two hours, I was concentrating like mad, and time disappeared.  When I came out, it took a few minutes to adjust back into Tuesday afternoon, and where I was.

We began with quick drawing sessions, with the pose changing every few minutes.

Then we spent longer on a pose, initially just getting a simple outline and then working further to achieve (hopefully) a more accurate drawing.

John is a very gentle teacher, and occasionally I was aware of him at my shoulder – there to offer help and guidance if required.  He drew a few lines on my paper to remind me what the aim was, and how the sketch could progress from my first few tentative marks.

Looking forward to next week.