One of the things I have been doing this year alongside this course is Life Drawing. I really enjoyed it on my Foundation course last year and found it to be very useful for learning about anatomy, weight distribution, poses and lighting.
I definitely started off not being very good with the shorter gesture drawings, trying to focus too much on the shapes on the body rather than the actual movement and pose.
With a bit extra time my drawing was better, although still awkward in some places and not showing too much life.
I felt like having different lighting conditions helped to draw the weight and mass of the body, although I think in some cases I had way too much contrast and not enough mid tones. There are a lot of resources online to help practice with life drawing, and though it isn't quite the same as doing it properly with a life model, I am aiming to get better with gesture drawings and showing the flow of a body. I would also like to experiment further with lighting, although I do want to get the basics down properly before moving on to that.
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