5 Minute Poses

These are some of my 5 minute poses, completed over the semester. It was different to other life classes I had been to as we started with a 15 minute pose, then 10 min, then 5 min, and previously the time has gone from short to long, but either way it works in the sense that it warms you up and helps you loosen your limbs a bit.

At first I tried to sketch out the torso and shoulder lines as is sometimes taught, but often the picture would end up looking too angular (see above). I found it much easier to loosely sketch an outline and work out the proportions that way rather than by lining it up with a pencil.

These first two above are from some extra classes I went to at the Millennium Galleries, this was after having not done any life drawing for quite some time and I think it shows!

As I continued with the classes I found myself getting more confident with the quick sketches and hopefully getting the proportions better, I also started having a go at close-up sections of the body.