Life Drawing!

  So last night I started going to a life drawing class. I was really fun, I took my music with me as I find it easier to draw with music, and yeah, it was really good.

It's not much right now, but I'm getting the general proportions about right. I think I did pretty well this time round, luckily we had quite a bit of time for each sketch.

I'm looking forward to next week, where we'll be using some ink, charcoal, chalk and a touch of white paint to help with shading and lighting. Sounds like fun!

A few more sketches

 Just a few more drawings, I think odd angles of the face are leading to me drawing them slightly out of proportion. The girl in this top picture I feel has a slightly too thin and slightly too short nose. The photo I drew this from was black and white and so there wasn't a lot of shadow definition on the right side of her face anyway which made it harder to scale correctly.

Her..

She came to me in my dream last night.

Her hair was a deep fiery red and her skin smooth and white. She smiled at me.

It was as if she'd never left.

We talked, about this and that. All the time she was smiling. I remember the things we used to do, go star gazing on a clear summer night, climb onto the roof when no one was looking, cook sushi and by the time we'd finished we could only eat a handful of what we made. (Her family usually ate the rest).

We were the best of friends that there had ever been, I could talk to her about anything and not worry about judgements or blame, and she could do the same with me.

I've asked myself over the years why she had to leave, yet there she was, smiling right at me as if it had never happened.

I love and miss her greatly, but I pray she doesn't visit me again. My chest hurts as if my rib cage has collapsed in on itself.

She has passed through my dreaming twice this week, and I can't understand why. I haven't thought about her in years and now it seems as if shes flooding back to me, as if it never happened.
I hope my dreams tonight will be ones of a child..

A Few Photographs

Here is just some 'artsy' photographs I have, these two with the stairs and cuddlies are just a little test of editting colour and contrast to see what affect it would have.

 I know this photo of the horses looks staged and I can hardly believe myself that I took it just as it is but here we have it. Being in the right place at the right time helps when you want to take some photos of the natural world like this.

This is my go at the 'Footprints in the sand' poem mum used to tell me. Even though technically there are only one set of footprints the whole way and 'your life' appears to be a bag and a water bottle.. it's a start!

 Just a friends dog called Yogi, a cute comical tilt of the head and with those puppy dog eyes, I think anyone would melt like butter!

Eyes

 So after my look at mouths, here is my look at eyes. I find eyes can be very difficult to get on the right level with each other (when drawing the face as a whole) and also difficult to make them look as if they a real and belong on the face youre drawing.

Mouths

So over the weekend I decided it would make things easier for drawing if I started looking at the body piece by piece. For some reason, I have chosen the mouth to start this plan! Most of these sketches are drawn from photos as I have not managed to find a model or life drawing class as of yet. This makes things easier and difficult at the same time. In a photo, you can come back to a sketch and re-work it as the image you have been sketching has not changed at all, however a photograph lacks the 'life'. When you draw from real life, it is somehow easier to create a more life-like sketch as things like shading are easier to distinguish on a live model and also the haste to complete your drawing before the model changes position or gets tired brings life to the marks you make somehow. Don't ask me how they do this.. they just do. Nevertheless, here is what I have drawn so far.

 For some reason a smile is the hardest thing to draw realistically. I can never quite get a smile to seem natural...

Dreams are Strange

I know I haven't really posted any of my artwork from this year yet, for which I apologise but the weekend was pretty busy!

I did have a very strange dream last night though.

It had an old friend I went to primary school with- Tom. We were at the church that was near our school, for some reason I was the age I am now but he was only about 11- round the age I last saw him. We were in there ready for some service and he was telling me how upset he had been because his mother never saw him anymore.
I looked at the church door and saw her trying to quietly leave a note just inside. She saw me and quickly turned to walk away but I ran to catch up with her outside.

I thought about asking her why she was being so stupid and didn't just go in to see her son, then saw how sad she looked so settled for "is everything ok?"

Then she burst out "how can everything be ok with someone like him being around all the time!?" (For some reason I knew that she was talking about a man she had been seeing). She started to cry and stumbled so I caught her in a hug, she seemed so small, light and delicate to me..
She thought that there was no way to escape her abusive relationship.

I didn't say anything.

I put my hand on her back and wished for the evil to be drawn out of her.

She screamed "release me"

I picked her up, silently praying for her and took her back inside the church. Tom saw us walk in. He quietly came up to us with a soft smile and held out his hands for me to pass her over to him, she was so light he could carry her even at his young age. We sat down. They hugged. Tom smiled at me..


I miss him

A bit of Life Drawing

 Here are just a few examples of my Life Drawing from last year, I know I should be posting up what I'm doing at present but unfortunately there have been a few.. issues that have stopped me from producing anything new right now. But do tell me what you think about these. I'm thinking of taking up some sort of Life Drawing class again just to keep developing my drawing style.

Hello!

Hello to everyone!

My name is Alice and I have made a new years resolution to remain active in my artwork and try to get myself 'out there' as an artist. I enjoy painting, drawing and photography and like meeting new people. I've been out of school for about half a year now and am really excited to get out and about!

I will try and keep up to date with this blog as much as possible!

Well I guess, wish me luck with it!