As well as all the various introductions, tutorials and an interesting lecture by Cristoph Zellweger (possible follow up post for this to come) we were introduced to the interesting world of life drawing.
As I've never done a life drawing course before i had a few apprehensions (mainly the act of staring at a naked person for hours) but mainly i was excited to get back into drawing again.
The first few drawings i did were a bit rusty but after a while i really got into it, i think this quote by Alain de Botton describes it well.
"The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities."
This applies well to the art of life drawing as instead of focusing on the entire naked image you start focusing on different parts such as the curve of the hip or the negative shapes between the limbs.
Overall I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to continuing on with it for this year.
Here's a few of the sketches I did during this first session.
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