Yesterday at Life Drawing Class, we discussed about draperies. Ian, our professor, talked about how to use different tonal values for the creases of the drapery. These were some of the drapery studies that I did during class. And so I played around with the tonal values – Yay! 
I hope that it turned out well.
2-5 minute study
5-10 minute study
10 minute study
This was something I have drawn unconsciously at Life Drawing last month. I couldn’t redraw something similar to this one right now. Nothing’s impossible though! It just needs a little bit of practice and application of a wider range of techniques/styles.
We studied and drew bones as part of our Life Drawing class last semester. It was not as in-depth as the bone studies that the ANI program has but we got a clear perspective of how bones are placed inside the body. By drawing bones, it gives me a good sense of human proportion. These are some of the sketches that I’ve submitted as part of my final portfolio last semester.
Honestly, I’m afraid of tangible anatomical representations – whether it be real or not. Good thing that we’d be drawing the muscles from reference materials and not from real ones. I just hope that no one suggests that we’d be going to a morgue for our field trip. (Gulps) T__T
About two months ago, we had our mini field trip at the ROM. It was a week day and we thought that we’d have the museum all to ourselves. We didn’t expect that we’d be having our field trip on the same week as the March break. So when we arrived at the ROM, there were a lot of kids roaming around the lobby area. Anyway, we spread out the museum so we could find our ‘drawing spot’ amidst the crowd.
I roamed around the second floor and I couldn’t find a good spot where I could put my stool down and draw. I entered the Birds section and found that there were fewer people who pass that area. So I sat in front of the bird models and drew away. It was until later that two of my classmates joined me in that section.
Such a copycat that I was, I saw my classmate drawing just specific parts of the bird. This time, I drew the wings and added a little bit of texture using my blue animation pencil.
Later that day, we handed our drawings to our life drawing instructor. He gave his assessment of our drawings then we headed back to school because we had class that evening. Overall, it was a good drawing experience for me at the ROM. I’ll try to come back when I get some free time. 
Last week at Life Drawing class, we discussed about portraiture. This is a 10-15 minute study of the model. I was a bit surprised that I was able to draw her since I’m still having problems with my proportions, shading and line quality.
A friend of mine is into brush pens for his artwork, portfolio drawings and cafe sketches. I fell in love with the Pentel Brush Pen that he used previously so I bought my own and played around with it. I previously bought a light gray marker because I want to improve my drawings. I didn’t find any use for it until later when I bought the brush pen.
While I was waiting for the bus the other day, I decided to take out my sketch book and try out the brush pen that I have. I used the marker just to try adding a little bit of color into it.
That night, I was in the mood for some drawing so I doodled my way while thinking about my dialog assignment for animation class. While I was watching Chicago, I found a scene where I find her pose very interesting. I hope that I could have done justice to the pose she was in. Proportion-wise, it needs improvement, but I think me, the brush pen, and the light gray marker are getting along well.
The following day, I finished my dialog assignment earlier than expected, finished my daily chores, went to school, submitted my assignment and had my instructor critiqued it. While I was waiting for the bus (again) home bound, I used my 10 minutes (it was 8:30PM and the bus arrives at 8:40) and drew the woman sitting on the bench outside the building.
I still have to ask my friends and my life drawing instructor on how I can use these two materials that I’m delving into.
I’ve collected some of the “best” life drawing studies that I’ve drawn for the last two months. If you have just stumbled across my blog/blog post and you have art skills, kindly critique my work so I’d know which part I could work more on and hopefully I could improve later on. T__T
30 second study
1-2 minute study
5 minute study
10 minute study
15 minute or longer study
Pelvic study
I am currently taking up a class on Life Drawing where we draw models in various poses. Currently, we are learning more about Gestural Drawings and showing the line of gesture(?). I’d probably take the Extra Life Drawing after class so I’d learn how not to put to many short lines in my drawings.
Here are the doodles that I’ve drawn for the past month. Still busy doing something and hopefully that my drawings continue to improve. (hopefully) I’m trying to put some color into my drawings too but I’ll probably focus on it more when I’ve become free from all the stuff that’s been putting me in so much backlog.
My first attempt at watercolor.
