Last lesson we tried our hand at life drawing, concentrating on the proportions of the human figure.  It’s really important to get the proportions right before you start adding the detail and shading.  As most of you discovered, using your pencil to measure proportions can be a real help.  Well done to all of you for tackling the tricky bits – hands and feet.  Just keep practising and it will get easier, I promise!

Week 5 was self-portraits and you all produced some great drawings.  We looked at using guidelines for portrait proportions and then making alterations to those to create your own unique likeness.

Halfway through the course already!  So here are the photos of our lesson on enlarging using a grid.  Some people found this helped and some found it easier to work without the grid but it’s always good to try out different techniques and see what works best for you.

Last lesson we tried some different media – charcoal and chalk, and we looked at scale.  It’s always difficult at first when you try new things but by the end of the lesson you were flying with it.  I hope some of you will continue to work in charcoal/chalk in the future, you achieved some great effects.

Thanks to everyone for coming to the class last night, especially on such a wet, dismal evening.  I think it was worth it as you did some lovely drawings and you are all clearly thinking about the points we’ve covered so far.  Well done!  Here are some of your drawings.