At least there will be no more teapots
Jan. 20th, 2012 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_deep_magicMy portrait drawing class began last night, and you know what that means...
Same teacher, same time, same classroom (obviously, I fear change), but all faces this time. There's one other woman from my previous drawing class that signed up for this one, and when we got there, the teacher said that since we already had the right materials and knew how to use them, we could go ahead and get started on the model, who was already in position. Well, after the teacher finished catching everyone else in the class up on the technique, he told the model to take a break. When we reconvened, she said the light was hurting her eyes at that angle and repositioned herself. Fine, okay, I wiped my paper "clean" and started over.
Then the teacher starts giving a demonstration, and since I'd heard most of what he'd said before, I started afresh. After about half an hour, when the demonstration was done, everybody took another break. And when we came back, for some reason the teacher repositioned the light source, so I had to start all over again. (It should be noted that my classmate just effectively said, "Aw, screw it" after the second pose and tried to draw from memory. Perhaps she had the right idea.)
So I only had about an hour to work on this, but considering that, I'm very pleased with how it came out. I didn't have as much time on the eyes and the mouth as I would have liked, but her ear actually looks like an ear and is in the right place (first time that's happened, I think), and I managed to get a little texture and shading into the hair. Again, the model didn't look quite as... severe, I guess, as I drew her, but I do think I'm improving. Lots more people in this class, so I may have some competition. ;o)
Same teacher, same time, same classroom (obviously, I fear change), but all faces this time. There's one other woman from my previous drawing class that signed up for this one, and when we got there, the teacher said that since we already had the right materials and knew how to use them, we could go ahead and get started on the model, who was already in position. Well, after the teacher finished catching everyone else in the class up on the technique, he told the model to take a break. When we reconvened, she said the light was hurting her eyes at that angle and repositioned herself. Fine, okay, I wiped my paper "clean" and started over.
Then the teacher starts giving a demonstration, and since I'd heard most of what he'd said before, I started afresh. After about half an hour, when the demonstration was done, everybody took another break. And when we came back, for some reason the teacher repositioned the light source, so I had to start all over again. (It should be noted that my classmate just effectively said, "Aw, screw it" after the second pose and tried to draw from memory. Perhaps she had the right idea.)
So I only had about an hour to work on this, but considering that, I'm very pleased with how it came out. I didn't have as much time on the eyes and the mouth as I would have liked, but her ear actually looks like an ear and is in the right place (first time that's happened, I think), and I managed to get a little texture and shading into the hair. Again, the model didn't look quite as... severe, I guess, as I drew her, but I do think I'm improving. Lots more people in this class, so I may have some competition. ;o)
