First, an hour-long pose in which we could do anything we wanted. After that, we followed directions.
In the cold light of next day you're finally detached from your drawing and can see what "needs attention" -- that arm, especially!My favourite part of the class was the moving around to the next easel, rubbing out what that person had done, and doing it "your way" on top of the vestiges of that drawing. We did that 3 times and got to claim the final one as "ours". This was about two things - not being precious about your own drawing (or your preconceptions), and about seeing the figure from different perspectives - not only physically as you moved round the room, but psychologically as you looked at and reworked the previous drawing.
On the floor are the "gesture drawings" which preceded this exercise.
2 comments:
I don't think I could have done that! =X It would have drove me crazy to let someone else touch my drawing. I used to hate when my teacher would draw on my work.
I've never come across the idea of working into someone elses'drawing. I could imagine learning a lot from an exercise like that.
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