One of my drawings tonight was left handed.
Not to make things easy, Frank asked me to draw a thirty minute pose left-handed tonight.
London Illustrator Matt Richards and his diary of life drawing classes
Working on the head has definitely improved…
…Well, in the hour pose at least.
I’ve been paying attention to building my life drawings with abstract shapes, observing their relationships against one another as opposed to drawing ‘a foot’ or ‘a neck’.
Traveller mum Carly Morson recently commissioned me to create a header illustration for her website.
Last week I felt that my quick warm-up sketches were stronger than the longer poses. Week 2 at life drawing seemed to have the opposite effect.
It’s really refreshing to get back behind an easel, working on large format and getting mucky with charcoal with no distractions at all.