I did use biro on my third week, but didn’t restart any pictures. After over scribbling with biro, I mixed biro with pencil and was quite happy with the result (posted below) except for the hands. Then I went back to pencil and found that I had improved a bit.
Tomorrow we have a dancer as the model and there will be a lot of short poses.
I’ve now been to two life drawing classes, and took my middle son to the second. I am very rusty. I look at my sketch book days later and this is what I see: the 30 second and 1 minute sketches are pure gesture - that's good for animation. Big improvement on the 1 minute ones from week 1, but the 30 second ones are lagging behind - looking like stick figures slightly fleshed out.
I really need to learn to draw faster if I’m going to be any good at animation. The five minutes were better but didn’t give much chance for correction of errors. That’s another thing, on the longer poses, I did correct bits but carried on overworking in other areas – I’m going to use biro next week to force me to look and if it’s wrong, I’ll start again. It’s what I used to do at Goldsmith’s – it was always the second sketch that was that much better.
