Life Drawing!

They've got weekly life drawing sessions pretty much everywhere, if you look hard enough. But the good thing about AIB's life drawing is that it's for animators. As in, they organise it. Which is cool. But the better thing about AIB's life drawing is free paper and drawing implements!! How can I pass that up, when MICA charges to walk into the school store? As Ariyana can tell you, I'm a whiz at going to life drawing every week,* so the only thing stopping me is a 45 minute wait for the bus home afterward. Ouch... Or "brrr," rather.

Anyway - here's some of the highlights. I've never worked with chalk on black paper, so that was fun. The first years also have a life drawing requirement every Friday; the graphite ones are from that session.

Apologies for the bad quality. It's pretty much impossible to take a good photograph of a drawing. At least with my camera. Click for larger images. Oh yes, the little numbers (as good art students could probably figure out) are the length of the pose.

* Okay, maybe not "Life Drawing," but finding naked people? Sure.
* cough cough

These were 20 minutes

30 and 15, respectively

John's Week One Sketches

I've been in Bournemouth for a whole week now, so I believe a nice sketch post is in order. My Little Moleskine* is getting good use! People from the seaside, people from McDonald's, people from the bus, and some other exchange students from Paris who are in the Animation Programme as well. The course has been going great so far, and there is life drawing every week, so there will be some naked people in the future!

* My Little Pony for the Artist.