Life Drawing

From Scene One, The Struggle

From Scene One, The Struggle

I found recently whilst planing out my narrative that I was struggling to get the positioning and pose of my figures right. There was only so much I could find via reference on line, so I decided the best thing to do was to arrange a life drawing session. I am lucky enough to have a friend (Sam) who works as a life model in Southampton, so I arranged a private session with him. I found it was great as I could ask him to pose exactly how I wanted! I had previously worked out the exact scene I wanted to illustrate.

 The idea was of the character struggling to disconnect himself from a large pipe or cable. The idea was that the character would be disconnecting himself from technology. 

The second scene I needed help with illustrated the character slowly crouching down to cover and protect a small plant. I wanted the frames to run almost as an animation to show this. Here are a selection of drawings from the day. 

From Scene Two, Becoming Passive

From Scene Two, Becoming Passive

As with all life drawing they were done very quickly, especially as some of the poses were quite difficult to hold for any length of time. I used straight ink and a mixture of natural and white paper. Some of the drawings I took to opportunity to work with large areas of shadow and single line, as I am working mainly with a human shaped 'container'. I felt that some of these were my favourite drawings as they were simple yet expressive. I think they would also be a good basis to work from into paper cuts.

 I also took some pictures to document the session and use later. I will discuss them on a separate entry.