Above are some images I have done in life drawing classes I have been taking on and off for the good part of this year. I missed life drawing the most when I left university so I enrolled into some day classes while I had the chance. I mostly just made studies. I didn’t really go in to make any finished pieces. Just want to keep up my hand eye co ordination, and it is really nice to have a variety of people to draw.
I do miss how my uni was a bit more challenging in terms of the people they chose to model for us. We had large people, old people, all sorts of shapes and sizes. I really do love the human body and am sad that I have since misplaced most of the studies I did during that time.
One excursion I remember at uni was the trip we took to the Melbourne Universities Anatomy Museum. Where there were human skeletons, bits and pieces of the human body in various jars. Some deformed from disease or what have you. You have to have a strong stomach for it as there is a smell. A lot of the specimens are very old. One in particular was of a female torso who was (I think) in her second trimester of pregnancy. Apparently she died in a car accident around the 1940′s and no one claimed her so they took her body and used it for science. She used to be on public display. However the laws have changed on such things since and bodies, and bits of bodies, that didn’t have permission to be used are no longer on public display. But if you book, I think you can get in. We went in to draw bits and pieces.
Anyway, the human body, dead and alive, is an amazing thing. And I like to draw it.
Very good. Wish I could draw like that!
I know it is said “anyone can learn”…well, I wish I had the time to learn, but it takes a LOT of time to get as good as this. (and a talent helps too!).