Life drawing: Foreshortening and perspective

 This weeks life drawing was focused on foreshortening, which is essential to make figures the right proportion when they are lying down or seated. Seated poses viewed from the front often need thighs to be drawn a lot shorter than the brain wants. I found the legs on both my drawings very difficult, because on my first line drawing, the legs were a lot smaller than I thought they were, and on the second drawing, the thighs were a lot shorter than I expected, and the lower legs and feet seemed very long in comparison because I could see along the whole length of them. I found that stepping back and looking at my drawing as a whole made it easier to see any mistakes in the proportions or perspective.
We only did two drawings this week, one line drawing, and one with tone. We spent most of the day on our second drawing, which gave us time to get the proportions right then focus on adding the tone. I am very pleased with this drawing because of the subtle changes in tone the charcoal can achieve. I think this is one of my best drawings yet.

Life Drawing: Perspective.

In our third week in life drawing, we focused on drawing figures from different perspectives and angles. The hardest part I found was not being able to measure in heads, when the whole of the head wasn't visible. we didnt do much work on tone this week, just proportions, angles and perspective.

 This one was very difficult. I measured it it feet instead of heads, and it was hard because my brain was telling me that a torso should be long, but because of the angle, this torso needed to be very short and angled, so I was trying to draw what I saw, and my brain was trying to draw what it thought a body should look like.