Life Drawing

I am working very hard at the moment, but despite being tired I am loving the work that students are doing. These are some drawings from a life drawing class that I am covering for a couple of weeks, they are by a lady called Teresa Angus. All of the students drawings were great, but I just managed to take a picture of Teresa's.

Joanna Jakutowska

A last few posts from Dundee Degree Show which finishes tomorrow. 
Joanna Jakutowska's animation was fantastic as were her stunning life drawings. Hopefully soon I will be able to share her animation with you as well.

Life drawing inspired by Adam Neate

 

Above: Laura McCartney

Above Linda Ritchie , Below Jemma Mitchell

Above: Shannon Mclachlan, Below: Marley Ford

It is great to take inspiration from this blog and others into my classes and visa versa. Today in my second Life Drawing class with the Introduction to Creative Arts Students, I showed them and told them about the work of Adam Neate, and we  painted the figure on cardboard boxes. They did really well and I was pleased with the results.

Jylian Gustlin

 

I am teaching Life Drawing to my Introduction to Creative Arts, to my NC Fashion and to my senior schools student groups. I have to say I love it! The improvement in drawing standards is so rapid, the observational skills, the anatomy and understanding of weight distribution and balance and most of all the consideration and understanding of the human condition. 
Art schools are moving away from this area of study and the result is that students are coming out with much depleted drawing and looking skills. We are losing the vital foundations that were the essence of an art education. 
I hear colleagues belittling life drawing as archaic and unnecessary but I personally feel it is an essential  learning process.

These drawings by Jylian Gustlin are just wonderful, the gestural marks and the quality of the lines are compelling and beautiful.