Wednesday figure drawing

Hit up the figure drawing session today, and broke away from all pen for a couple drawings. I realized when I got home I shouldn't get so frustrated over any of the shorter (>10 minute) poses, and probably even the longer ones too. Its just not enough time to edit / measure / really match up the drawing to reality.

Of course, that's sort of the aim, but 5 minutes? Come on.

I had a couple really nice ones for the last two poses, I'll post pics in a few minutes. I tried to push the envelope live between observed / improvised, with some ok results. Still bouncing in between the two conceptual concerns.

 

I don't know that the idea of figure drawing is necessarily to reproduce reality. One uses reality as a base, but then goes from there. Or at least that's what it seems like to an outsider.

 

Sure thing. But certainly those type of concerns 'crop up' when approaching drawing the figure. Obviously the aim is not to absolutely reproduce what one sees, but the response one makes (the drawing) has to consider drawing in a way that recognizes the long history of drawing (and painting / sculpting) the human figure.

What I mean is, I can't entirely avoid the idea that I'm trying to 'match up'.

I don't know if this comment has added much lol.

 

It makes sense, I think. You're used to spending a long time on the more abstract details, whereas the short figure drawing classes force you to ground an aspect of what you're doing in objective reality and to worry less about the tiny details than the broad impression. Plus, figure drawing tends to be less abstract period, which perhaps brings you a bit out of your comfort zone?

I dunno really. I'm fascinated by art, but I've never studied it outside of an intro film studies class and an intro music class.