Second Years 24.09.18

24.09.18

The class is split in two, 10 and 11. So most days Ms S and Ms D have a class each. Eventually on a Monday I will have half the class so when Ms D is out I take that class. Now I had no prep for it and this was their first class of life drawing. I decided to just to gesture drawings as it is only a 40 minute class and they were leaving early for a uniform inspection. All of the pupils were very nervous to start this. As I had just did this myself in a class I thought the experience was great to get me start back to life drawing as I myself find it is very difficult. We did a series of poses starting and 30 seconds and building up to 10 minutes and swapped models every second pose so they all got a feel of the time and what they could achieve.

Looking back I should have give them a brief breakdown of the figure and how you approach drawing it but I didn’t. I don't think it totally necessary for gesture drawing but perhaps a bit more knowledge would have been helpful for the longer poses. It was a great way to get the girls drawing and it also kept them quite and focused, as they were concentrating on finishes something within a time limit.

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