Life Drawing Week 12- Props continued

This week, we continued with props in our composition. Our model for the day was a voluptuous woman who took to doing “things you do in the bathroom” poses (as you would given a towel and hair dryer as props).

I really enjoyed drawing her. Perhaps it was her generous curves that I really like capturing on paper. Else, it must have been her jovial personality which seem to break the seriousness that sometimes befall the room.

Like last week, I worked diligently on proportions. Stepping back, the resulting sketches seem to have a cartoon feel about them.

For our 3rd and final pose for the evening, I used an entire hour getting the proportions and detail with pencil only to go over it all with colour pastels. I guess I was inspired by the colourful work of my classmates that I viewed during our break and so when it came time to resume, I just went for it. At first, I was nervous and hesitant to break from my usual charcoal. I had to remind myself that part of Life drawing was experimenting and breaking free from the familiar and constraints…and so “Woman with hair wrapped in towel” came to be.