Life drawing

First attempt

later attempts

I tried my had a life drawing this afternoon. I have done it at high school and onmy foundation course but I've not done it for a long time. I get pretty fustrated when drawing the figure from life because I find it very hard to get the proportions right, its much easier to draw from pictures! But thats why I signed up for it, I wanted to learn to draw figures correctly.

The woman teaching us loved the second image up there, she said it was a really strong drawing and proportionatly correct. My drawings at the beggining were rubbish, So I am pretty proud to have ended up with drawings like this at the end of just one session.

I learnt that charchol isn't infact my worst nightmare, and that by using stronger, sharper lines pushes that area out towards the viewer and brings the drawing into 3d life. The whole body is measured by the size of the head, this is a good way of keeping your figure in proportion throughout. It took me quite a few gos, but I finally got the hang of this idea.
I'm going to keep doing life drawing when the oppertunity comes up as I do enjoy it. The direction of my work has not changed due to life drawing, however the more drawing I do the better I get so by doing this I can only get more confident.