We began with some quick 30 second rough gesture sketches to quickly get down the shape of the model using lines of action. I found this really helpful to put the full figure in an interesting pose onto the page really quickly.
We then had a go at drawing the model as though it was drawing frames of an animated character.
We also tried blind contour drawing which I thought was amusing when I looked back at my paper. I don't think I've quite grasped this one yet but I'm sure more practise looking away from my page will help me to draw better. We also did a collaboration drawing where we drew on each others drawings around the room which I found fun as I could see where I would make changes on other drawings as well as understand how I could improve my own drawing.
After drawing the model in full for 15 minutes we had a go at drawing a caricature. I found the change of drawing realistically to stylised quite difficult but hopefully with more practise I can improve my stylised drawings.
Our final drawing used black paper and focussed on the light in the room and how to create the character using tonal value rather than drawing an outline of the figure. I quite liked this exercise as it helped me to see the contrast in the lighting around the room. I think if I were to have another attempt at this exercise I would use more white as I did in the previous session and work into it with charcoal.
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