For the final week of figure drawing the focus was on shape and form. As with each session I began with quick sketches of different poses each around 1 to 2 minutes. I did lots of practice of this as I enjoy it and wanted to test myself by attempting to draw some complex poses such as laying down ones that I struggle with more. I used videos of both male and female models for this.
This is a page of continuous line sketches which is a good way of experimenting with shape and form. I’ve done continuous line sketches before but not for figures so this was difficult but overall I’m satisfied with how they tuned out. I tried to do sketches for a range of poses to push myself.
For this page I experimented with using minimal lines to construct a figure. This required me to focus of the negative space to see the silhouette of the figure and pick out line most essential lines. This was a fast activity and I think it was successful and not something I would have been able to do a few weeks ago as I wasn’t so confident with how to construct a figure.
I began to introduce colour to expand upon what I did last week. I chose a line from the figures silhouette and cut it out from coloured paper then sketched the figure in biro over it. I liked experimenting with multi figure figure dawnings.
This task with essentially combining the work from the last to pages. I would pick out the key shapes from the figure and cut these out from coloured paper. I like how the figure are simplistic but there’s still enough detail to make the pose pose.
Overall I really enjoyed the figure drawing portion of the module, I learnt a lot of tips and techniques that I can use. Also we used a range of tools and mediums that have expanded my own personal tool kit of sketching. I feel a lot more confident with drawing figures in complex poses now but plan to continue to develop these skills as I think it’s an important skill to have as an illustrator.
Samuel Green Illustration 