Last week in Drawing, we had a model for the first time this semester. Drawing the model was actually extremely challenging for me this day. My teacher, David Noyes, did not like my approach in the beginning. I was drawing too "formulaic". David said that the best way to draw a model is not to see the model as an object to draw (that is how people start out learning to draw the model usually). He says the best way is to draw the model as a specific individual, with a specific body and personality. He had us all imagine how the model must be feeling at that moment and try to capture that in the line quality. David Noyes demonstrated the importance of sensitive contour lines that describe the form.
This was very different from any approach to figure drawing I had used before. My past figure drawing teachers focused more on internal structures. While the new way of drawing took some time to get down, I had a much easier time with it at the end of class.
The drawing on the far left shows my drawing with David's demonstration to me on the page. He was helping me understand how to better draw the arm. I copied his line once so I could understand it better. The two drawings to the right are ones I did later in class. My drawings were much improved from how I first started out.
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