Life Drawing - Week 8

Week 8 was hard. Everyone in the class had a nightmare except Eli who expertly mixed washes, paints and carcoal while the rest of us bungled through like a bunch of overgrown 5 year olds. This picture was the final pose - we were asked to paint in the white areas first, no drawing, no planning - just straight into laying the bright areas onto the page. This paint was only defined when we carved into it with charcoal - but by this time the measurements were all out - arms were too skinny, legs too fat and feet just plain weird. The only chance to correct things was to effectively tipex out the mistakes with more white paint, grinding out an image that worked. This is how far I got in the time allotted, it's better than last week - so that's something.