Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. I chose to punish myself this evening with a foreshortened hand. It was hard. After the tea break (with a Victoria Sandwich) we had a one-hour pose and I spent the whole time working on this hand and knee.
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I'm an artist / printmaker / scribbler. I love drawing and all the geeky stuff associated with printmaking, working in a figurative style. I live in Wales with husband and demented cats. And my real name is Rose Davies :D
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I can’t impress enough upon people the importance of eating cake to aid the artist in improving technique. Victoria Sponge comes highly recommended when tackling the complexities of foreshortening.
Oh yes. And Lemon Drizzle hits the spot, too
Commendable! I always feel that there should be master classes for hands and feet. I’m better at feet. Who was modelling?
It was Alan. Have you seen Burne Jones anatomical drawing books? The ones on dynamic hands and dynamic anatomy are excellent for practice.
No I have not! I have just been potching around until now. I’m going to be investing my two days off into my art work from after Easter. I have a million ideas whirring around and up until now I’ve had no time to refine any of them. My life drawing needs some more work for a start! So I need to have look at this I think.
Do you have titles for these books? Best life pose I’ve drawn was a lying down one with the legs curled round so you couldn’t see the feet and the hands hidden beneath the body!
Sorry, that’s Burne Hogarth – well tired last night. Drawing Dynamic hands and Dynamic Anatomy are very good.