Life Drawings

Life drawing i must say helped me a lot, I've always been the type to draw my work on a graphics tablet because I am much more free at what i can do, from vectoring to blending colours. I was scared to put the pencil to the paper because i was afraid of making mistakes and messing up my work. But today i was forced to push myself to use as many medias as possible and to keep practicing. Drawing the female body was always easy to me but i would take my time as I am drawing but today we were given time limits on how long we can spend on our drawings.

Starting of with a pencil was standard but then using pens made me uncomfortable because you cannot rub out pen. At this stage i was frustrated because i kept making mistakes but our teaching kept encouraging us to keep going and just keep drawing she always said "let your pens be free". So i focused less on making mistakes and stopped trying too hard and just go with my instincts, i was focusing a lot rather rather than trying to rush and get it right. 

At one stage the model was asked to make constant movements for about 5 minutes and this was very helpful because it engaged me to move faster with my media. I enjoyed using the charcoal the most because it made my work look more original and unique. I was very pleased at what i was able to accomplish by the end of the day, it started off stressful but now i am more confident in myself drawing and i was able to convince myself that not every drawing i do the first time around will be perfect. If thats the case i have to keep on going.