Life Drawing-week 1:Pencil

So first of all, i had never done life drawing before in my entire life. Being faced with a naked woman for the first time was one of the most daunting experiences of my life. At first i didn't really have a clue what i was doing, i'd never properly drawn a full human form before. So of course my first five minute sketch was appalling. the curves and measurements to not accurately represent the model and i almost felt the need to apologize to her. There is next to no life or energy in this drawing and is one of the weakest pieces i have produced. however, i did learn from this and i slowly become more comfortable.

My drawings were still inaccurate here which annoyed me even further, i started to hate life drawing after less than half an hour. I hadnt used pencil for months, favouring biro, so i had to get back used to it.

By the time the final drawing of this sheet came around i actually liked the little bit of shading on the robe. After looking at this first sheet i saw that i needed to add more shading and not worry about the head so much.

 The drawing on the right of the paper was one of the first i was actually quite proud of. i especially like the legs because i think i got the curves just right to show how the model was positioned. i don't like the placement of the arms so much as these look a little odd and misplaced so i made note to take more care of arm placement.
The sketch on the left was drawing in just 2 minutes. As someone who likes to take their time on a piece i found it extremely difficult to gather all the information on the pose in such a small amount of time.

From 2 minutes we got less and less time to gather the information on the pose right down until we literally had 2 seconds. I managed just to draw a couple of lines because for me it was no where near enough time. Our time started to increase gradually and when we were given a whole minute i was amazed at how much i actually got down compared to my previous attempts.

 After our time was allowed to go back to a normal and acceptable amount i felt a lot comfier with life drawing. I started shading more however my proportions still weren't accurate.
we were instructed to draw lines on our paper without moving our arms but by moving our knees instead to drag all, of our body down the paper. This allowed me to feel freer moving around the space and the paper.

For our final drawing drawing we were given sticks. actual sticks from trees. we had to attatch our pencils to the end of the stick and draw the model at arms length. Surprisingly this turned out to me my favourite and possibly best drawing of the session. i like the messiness of the lines and shading within it and my proportions were actually correct for the first time! i actually looked forward to the next session after this drawing.