Large scale Life Drawing

The life drawing sessions that I went to allowed me to massively develop my figurative drawing skills, something which I had identified as an area of art that I struggled with. 

I feel they were beneficial and allowed me to gain new techniques, styles and tips for figurative drawing. Whilst I'm still not as strong in this area as I am with expressive markmaking experiments, I'm glad that I have done it as It helped me study one of my chosen focus artists.

In the life drawing, for variety I decided to work in various different materials including chalk and pastels, and also vary the scale of my work.

These large scale life drawings are what I feel that I excelled in and the final products are of a higher standard and overall, more effective.

On reflection however I did see that they lacked the link to my other work and my other artists, so through this reflection I had decided to incorporate techniques of working that I've developed from studying artists, Derek Hess, Henry Moore, Robert Rauschenberg and Stephen J Shanabrook.

To do this, using Hess' techniques seemed more appropriate, along with colour influences with tone from Rauschenberg. I used striking colours that juxtaposed the simple and plain white and blacks.

                        

The finished product, A2 sized life drawings that I've refined using eye catching colours that complement the choice of original colour and the slight expressive nature of the drawings, along with the choice of the background material and colour.