Preparation for CalArts: 50 feet Life drawing challenge

So ive started up the weekly life drawing challenges again in preparation for CalArts and started off with 50 feet. I'd done something similar with hands a while back, but ive never spent any time looking at the structure of feet, how they bend, move, stretch, curve and just drawing feet.

It was nice to do something new and i figured i'd try out a few different techniques, changing to a different technique every other page or so. i feel ive definitely improved with how i draw feet so hopefully that'll show up when i attack a full body figure again.

6B graphite stick

6B graphite stick

Charcoal

Sanguine and Sepia pencils

Sanguine and Sepia pencils

Pen

Pen

Pen

Pen and pencil

Promarkers

Life drawing holiday sketch dump

As you can tell by the previous post, i spent the past week in Cornwall relaxing and doing some experimentation with life drawing. i wanted to spend a week just life drawing to see what sort of things i want to develop, as you can imagine theres quite a lot i want to work on, but im looking forward to it. I also wanted to get a big chunk of sketchbook completed with just external life drawing as i'd never done so before, you know, knocking out some of those 10,000 crappy drawings before the gold dust. Its been fun and im fairly pleased with the outcome, i dont think any of the drawings are 'wow' worthy but at least thats a stepping stone in the right direction.

So please feel free to critique and let me know any areas you think i should really focus on improving to add to my list.

Life drawing in Cornwall

I moved out of my student accommodation for the summer just over a week ago and went straight back out the door to go on holiday to Cornwall. It was definitely needed after working solid on animation projects with no rest for the past 8 months! I used the holiday to unwind and relax, getting some much needed life drawing practice in. It was really fun to have no restrictions or rules and just to experiment with what ever I wanted. Unfortunately the weeks over and I'll soon be back to reality animating on various project, client and personal. Expect all my life drawing to be uploaded soon, but here's a few snaps from my travels.

Preparation for CalArts: short life drawing class

Whilst working on my first short film, ive been attending a life drawing class once a week. Its been really fun and a great chance to relax from all the film related stress ive encountered. Unfortunately Wednesday was my last lesson for a while as i'll be moving out of my student house and back home for the summer.

Going life drawing once a week during this film has seriously been one of the best decisions ive mader in a long time. Its been a great way to relax and cool down ready to carry on animating. If anyone is thinking about making a short film, i seriously recommend going to a life drawing class once a week!

Anywho, heres a few of the pieces ive done from said classes. 

Attempt 1: 10 mins per individual pose with ink

Attempt 2: 10 mins per individual pose with ink

Experimenting with black chalk on white paper and erasing tone with a rubber

Experimenting with white chalk pencil on black paper

Experimenting with drawing tone with a 2B pencil

A failed experiment drawing with tone using charcoal on a foreshortened pose. the pose was a tricky one and i really struggle with drawing just with tone and no outlines, but i gave it my best and learnt a lot from it, the main thing being that the life model mentioned AFTER drawing her that she had fake boobs and they're dam near impossible to draw!