Some challenging poses this week at our Life Drawing Class in E17.
I find myself using stomach fold lines, and the structure of crossed arms, moving outwards as the starting point to most drawings now. Traditionally I would have always positioned the head first.
The mind is so hard-wired into knowing what our limbs look like, you really have to force it into drawing the shapes that the body forms when foreshortening is involved. Looking for abstract shapes was vital in this exercise. Creating, triangles circles and rectangles to piece together legs or arms and find markers to help you move onwards with the drawing.
Our model tonight was called David.
Giving me guidance, my class tutor is Frank Gambino, trained as a graphic designer, however in recent years his main practise is in portraiture and figure studies.Frank’s studio is in Belsize Park, London, where he works on commissions and runs popular life drawing classes. However, conveniently for me, he is also running classes in East London, at the Tokarska Gallery.
The Tokarska Gallery, a contemporary art gallery run by emerging artist Nadiya Pavliv-Tokarska.
Nice work Matt! Been a long time since I did any drawing, jealous!