Figure Drawing Workshop

We had the pleasure of doing a figure drawing workshop for 6 classes with Tommy Van Auken and a model. Overall it was a very good experience and it's always a good experience to draw from life as I feel like you notice a lot of small things and interactions between the body. It was a very educational experience overall and also a good exercise in mark making and line searching

These are some of the sketches I made on the first day, it was definitely a good warm up and helped me get back into the rhythm of 10 to 30 second drawings.

I like the motion I was able to capture with my quick drawings(middle and right). However I feel like my 10 minute study(left) isn't the best and definitely could use improvement. In my opinion, it just doesn't capture the same movement or feeling as the sketches so I would like to improve my use of movement and exaggerate it more.

These were some of my other 10 to 30 second drawings and feel like doing more anatomical studies throughout last school year and the summer definitely helped improve my quick sketches as compared to last years. Personally I really like the right-most figure on the right paper, and the bottom figure on the left paper. I would really like to work on capturing accurate anatomy with quick strokes.

Overall, the experience was really nice and I feel like I learned a lot and it got me more interested in doing more anatomy studies, and am looking forward to doing this again next year.