CDDA - Life drawing no model

This week at life drawing our model was absent again so we drew pictures of poses that couldn't be done by a single man. We were given 5 minutes to draw structure and add some linework then 10 minutes to add to the picture. Whilst it was kind of interesting, I didn't really feel that it was useful to me or my skills. I also got quite bored by the end. It was an interesting yet mostly useless session.

CDDA - Life Drawing Session 3

This week in life drawing we had a focus on perspective and short poses. The first piece of art we were directed to do was a drawing focusing on perspective. We were allowed to choose any kind of perspective we wanted so I went with a simple one point as I'm not very confident with perspective artwork. We were told to populate the page with simple blocks at first and then draw the model at the forefront of the picture. We then had to draw the same pose in the middle of the picture, still in the same proportions as the front picture using the lines from the vanishing point. We then drew him in a new pose standing up at the background of the picture, still to scale. I managed this quite well I think even though I struggled to add the detail because of the size of my drawings.

Next we went onto doing very short poses showing a set of movement using weaponry. The first set used nun-chucks and we were given only 2 minutes to draw each pose. This meant getting in the basic look of the body, focusing on angles of limbs and where the joints were. I enjoyed this and I like what I came out with.  

The next set of drawings we were given 3 minutes to draw and the weapons featured were small short swords. This time through I had a minute to sort out the actual body lines after blocking in the skeletons angles and joints so they look quite a lot better this time. I really enjoyed this exercise and could definitely see the benefit of it. 

The last 30 minutes was spent on a longer pose focusing on our perspective of the room. I am a bit mixed about this picture. I really like the full body image of our model, I feel I got the material of his robe and his pose down well (yet the legs are a little short sadly). But I got bogged down in that and had to rush to get any other parts of the image in before we finished.

CDDA - Dwarf inital sketches

After the completion of my mindmap I tried to imagine what my different races would look like and what they do and try to achieve as a race. I found it difficult to get a feel for any less intellectual creatures like giants which narrowed down my choices to vikings, gnomes, dwarfs and elfs. I decided on choosing the dwarfs above the others as they have always interested me in games and novels, often being shown as brash or cold which I felt did not capture my idea of a dwarf. Before looking into research I did some sketches from my ideas of what a dwarf is, trying to get proportions and build accurate mainly. 

CDDA - Chess characters task

 We were set the task of coming up with 3 characters based around the theme of chess. I decided that one force would be of humans that consisted of warriors and wizards whilst the other army was led by demons and creatures controlled by them. My human is a bishop, the giant is a castle and the zombie demon is a pawn.

CDDA - Life drawing session 1

I had my first life drawing session at uni this week which was treated as an introduction in which we were simply left to draw the model as we though best. We did 5 minute poses for the majority of the session.

At the end of the session we did a 30 minute drawing of the model allowing us a little more time to draw details and add shading.