2011/11/19

Life drawing at the VHS

Dr Sketchy's totally got me hooked on life drawing. Not too surprising I guess. I mean: looking at naked people and drawing - two awesome things combined. How can one not enjoy that. Therefore, I signed up for a life drawing class at the VHS (dict.leo says "adult education center"?). It's not really a class in the sense of that there's someone teaching us things. It's different models to draw plus an artist who provides us with his (very straight forward) opinion (and I like that system). So, that's where I'm gonna be every Thursday night after work now.

These are a little to big to fit on my scanner, so here are some crappy night-time photos (in anti-drawing-cronological order):
















I hope my brain will get better at combining its areas dealing with eye-received information and hand coordination soon. It's weird how you can look at a thing (or human that is) and think you see it and at the same time not really seeing it. Or at least not being able to see it in individual drawable parts. A bit like when you try to look closer at somebody's face in a dream or memory. Or... I don't know how to put this. Brains are strange.

8 comments:

Mari said...

I love doing life drawing and looking forward to go again... I like your drawings, especially the giant hand pointing at one of models : ) My favourite is the one in black ink and blue water colour.

Dan Kent said...

Great sketches! I think there is nothing better than life drawing. I did it years ago, and would love to do it again. And if I had to pick a favorite, it would be the one in green ink - I like the way the figure so naturally sits, leaning a bit to one side. No stiffness here.

Shirley said...

These are wonderful - so glad to see someone else posting figure drawing pages!

nanke's stuff said...

What fun! You did some wonderful sketches here. I love the loose line work you used, and the models did some great poses. I'm so looking forward to going back to life drawing in Ann Arbor! nancy

Sandra said...

No surprise that your sketches are terrific. You are so good!

whatidoisme said...

Wonderful sketches - I like them all.
Sue

raena said...

Whew! Lots of great figure sketches! Two, five, and six being my favorites!

Kleine Wunder überall said...

I love your drawings AND the name of your blog. It's wonderfully nerdy :-) (I love to write my name as "ln (q)")