When people see the things I've drawn they'll often say that I have great drawing skills. Considering the stuff I've managed to do in the past it seems silly to deny it but it always makes me uncomfortable. I always feel like to be able to say you're a "good drawer" you should be able to draw at least decently "live", on the spot from just sight. (Or better yet from just imagination - I strongly envy that scale!). People like those who will do
caricatures of you at a mall -
those people can draw. I don't really feel I can do that and everything I do ends up being painstakingly labored over before I can make it look at all "right".
I bring this up because there is a nearby art school that does weekly drawing workshops featuring live nude models. I'd always been curious to try it out and see what it was like but a little nervous to since I figured I'd pretty much suck at it. Well, I finally tried it this past weekend and it went quite well! The way this workshop is set up they start by having the model do short five minute poses for awhile and then later do a series of longer 20 minute poses. Though the rough, simple sketches I was able to make during this are nothing special, I'm frankly proud that I was able to actually capture the poses at all! (It actually looks like a human!!
) So I wanted to show a couple of them to people.
Here's the two best from the 5 minutes sketches:
Nude 1
Nude 2
And the two best from the 20 minutes catches:
Nude 3
Nude 4
No claims to greatness, certainly, but not so bad after all.
All in all, it was a really cool experience. I hope to do it again soon.