We drew a clothed model at figure drawing at Studio b. this week. It was challenging. The striped shirt she wore created contours that helped describe her form, so the stripes had to be believable. We had quick poses, none exceeding 30 minutes, and several were just 15 minutes. I have posted a few of them.
The pose at left shows what happens when I fail to correctly proportion the figure in the initial gesture. With the foreshortening I have shown by making the hips so much larger than the shoulders, the lower legs and feet should be positively huge. Instead, I drew the lower legs and feet as if they belonged to Tinkerbell. Mistakes in the initial gesture will remain for the entire drawing and ruin the finished piece.
Below are a couple of other drawings done the same night. I like how they turned out, even though the distortions and inaccuracies are obvious. The stool gave me some trouble. I really don’t like stools — they are hard to draw. I drew it without really looking at it, and the resulting mistakes can especially be seen in the conflicting and incorrect angles of the cross-bars between the stool legs. So, either I can try to correct the errors, or just leave them and call them “artistic license”, ha ha!
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