Introduction To Life Drawing.

The very first thing we did when returning for second year; was become well versed into the basics of  life drawing. After the first session, I had looked into some books and material that could prove to be useful in further learning the fundamentals of life drawing, as there is no particular style to it, instead following a very strict and forward realism to drawing that must be followed.

When researching for material on this matter, I found books such as; "Bridgeman's Complete Guide To Drawing From Life", where it helps evaluate on the human form and certain muscle groups that need to be understood and studied to a certain extent, in order to draw the model for the life drawing session properly. For example; The way that the model is standing must be looked at carefully so it's understood how heavy one side of their body is compared to the other leg, as it will make the legs and foot react to the weight that's been applied, and how we as the artists would need to draw it accordingly to the rest of the body.

I have also learned the basics in setting up a Easel, which is a board specifically built for standing upright in front of you with the subject matter you are drawing placed behind it. It's very important to have the right amount of view for drawing so that you can see the model/object. As well as understanding the height of the Easel so you can have you paper sit at a comfortable angle, and having it stuck up onto a drawing board with masking tape for precision, and to ensure you don't move it while drawing. 

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With the Easel set up, we then would need hat being able to map out basic shapes first, with further detail coming later, would have to be the preferred method in approaching the sketch. This would be done with either HB or 2B pencils on an a3 sheet of cartridge paper, as the texture would be shown best on this type of paper.

I would say that for our first session, already I have became familiar with the setup for this type of drawing I had previously done, but shown a lot more to the intricacies of how it actually works. As well as finding out a lot about object mapping, texture, form, and understanding the human body's anatomy and dynamism with how they are posed.