Musicians week of life drawing was probably one of my favorites from this year. I've found that if the atmosphere and models are really engaging, it becomes a lot more fun to work with. Linda, one of the life drawing teachers at CalArts was showing me how to utilize texture with the pastels to lead your eye in the bass player drawing. She actually rubbed his beard a bit because the texture was getting a bit too distracting there.
This is actually an older drawing, but it still stands out to me as one of my more successful ones. I think I was ahead of my time when I drew it, but it's also because I spent a lot of time sitting in the cafe and just watching. I can remember I drew everything but the man in the doorway and waited for the right character to walk in. When this guy entered, I was like, "that's it!" and tried to grab a mental image pretty quickly before drawing. Wanted to post it here as a reminder to do more cafe sketches and really pull from life in my work.
These are from the last life drawing class of the second year at CalArts. I felt a lot more confident in drawing the faces after a year of Linda's help and instruction. One thing I learned from both of these is that I actually sometimes work better when I use an eraser in longer poses.
I feel it's good to be bold and direct with mark making, but I actually drew the eye on the figure on the left about 3 times.
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