Life Drawing

Using charcoal and graphite. 

A tutor from Plymouth University come over to our college today, to do a morning of life drawing. 

We did a series of quick sketches concentrating on proportion and keeping the figure three dimensional.

I have a bad habit of drawing the figure outlines making a very flat image, this helped me to think about drawing lined across the page rather than just up and down. 

Also before partaking in this mornings class I would often start drawing the head first, then would regularly have to come back and re scale it as it would be out of proportion to the rest of the body. He taught us to always draw the torso first, this not only helps with proportion but also weighting of the body, to show the body leaning or slouching.