Life drawing

A selection of drawings and a painting from my last two lessons. 

We used the technique of boxes and sketching out through using the edge of a piece of charcoal again which I found really helpful to get back into drawing. I think I might keep using this technique when posing characters.

Some longer poses which I preferred as I had the time to add detail. I also enjoyed working on coloured paper to work with contrasting tones. 

One of our life drawing lessons gave us the change to practise painting in acrylics. I haven't painted in a really long time and found it quite difficult to get the grips of it, however I'm quite pleased with the result. I think it needs some work to improve my painting skills and my painting speed by blocking out the different shades really quickly.