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Life
Study Sessions - Life drawing sessions help the artist to see. The model moves, even if only slightly and the artist improves their own drawing technique by sketching from life. When a model has no clothes on it is easier to get the shape of a movement without the hinderance from folds of clothing. Once the artist has drawn extensively from life models then it is easier to visualise in one's mind's eye how a subject in a painting would move, pose etc. With or without any amount or style of clothing.
A tutor will normally start the sessions with
2 or 3 short 5 minute posses to encourage the artists to
sketch their first impressions quickly and loosely.
After this the pose will be set accordingly
to the group’s time pattern. This varies between 20
minutes to get a variety of movement and the whole 2 – 4 hour session to concentrate on detail. Some classes are
known to hold the same pose for a number of sessions, the
model returning to charcoal marked positions.
For the artists it is an objective,
life study and not an erotic exercise. Clothing can hide
the movement of the skin and muscle. Even the stillest of
life models moves as they breathe and slumps slightly as
they relax into the pose.
The tutor will encourage artist to:
- “look” more critically,
- more often,
- measure each line against the figure and the sketch,
- loosen up drawing skills.
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