Erica

Our model this week was a pleasant surprise: Erica is plump and uninhibited. It's nice to see someone so comfortable with her body even if it's not model material. David had us try drawing contours and overlapping them with some great results.


I suggested that it would look great as brush and ink or even abstracted further and coloured in. Which excited me so much that I made an attempt at home.


I used canvas which was not friendly to pencil and cannot be rubbed off much to my annoyance! An improvement is to offset the colour slightly from the ink to lend it more interest or to vary the line thickness which I'll try next time.


Erica's curves made me feel quite good about my own body. How to feel good- draw someone fatter than you!





This last one is a portrait of Erica done to practise facial proportions. Erica has a very pleasant face : she appears very approachable. I decided not to include her pendulous boobs here so as not to distract from her face.

Life drawing class 1

Having decided that my art could do with the discipline of regular practice, I enrolled in David Wilsher's life drawing classes again. Tutors tend to make certain that lighting is good and they always have tips to share. Our model was Olivia and once again I struggle with shading. Also met Leanne who was in the NAS course with me. She is very good and I think I can learn a lot from her as well.