Figure Drawing
Over this past quarter I have attended figure drawing classes almost every week, it takes place in Montpelier at the T.W. Woods gallery on Thursday nights. There are two classes that take place, one is where the nude (or clothed) model poses for 2 hours and the other is a series of short poses from 1 minute to 20 minute poses. Normally I would bring pencil and paper and just work on conveying the shape and shading of the model onto the paper, because I have been going to this class for 2 years now, bringing just pencil and paper was getting bland. The next week after feeling like the class really challenging me enough, I brought soft pastels to experiment with skin tone. It was a short pose class and I tested a few colors out, as poses went for a longer duration of time on I found a way to semi realistically represent the model using a bright orange and a turquoise. I feel like I have gotten all I was able to out of this class so I have started to stylize my drawings, doing small things make them more interesting. For example, I drew a mostly accurate outline of the female model, I added no shading and I only drew in her freckles and hair. This has been good practice, and has kept me creating even when I feel like I can't.