Back to basics.

Where should I begin? Only makes sense to start with the basics. ANY decent artist needs to have a good chunk of lifedrawing under their belt. Animators are no different. Thus, it only feels appropriate to show some of my older lifedrawing.

Before you start wondering, yes, the times are correct. We were timed on all our lifedrawing. The times and styles were geared towards teaching us to understand movement of the human form. Lifedrawing became a rush of adrenaline and when you were on, you were on. Days you weren't, it was best to leave and start drinking in the campus bar which was less than 25m from the lifedrawing room.

Anyways, page one:


Okay, the top half of this page is dedicated to a technique called "one line drawings" and they are just that. ONE LINE. You are not allowed to lift the pen off the page and no whiteout! What you put on paper is what you get. Most of these ranged from 3-5 min each.

The bottom half of the page is done in conte. For those of you who don't know what conte is, it's like a harder charcoal (yes...people draw with charcoal). Still frightfully messy though. The actual times are indicated beside the drawings. The purpose of the faster ones was to convey as much of the form as possible. In the longer poses we started looking at how light and shadow play. Conte is personally one of my favorite mediums to use.