LFGSS Art Club.

So simple, and useful, thanks!

Have carried on with classes. Doing more portraits from photographs. Last two times we did Frida Kahlo and Paul McCartney.

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good work :)

winter beach walk

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Sunbather

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Got bored in the rain so started a doodle.

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Life drawing started up again.

As usual my best drawings were the first warm up sketches.

I'm very pleased with the last one though. I'm very much a line person so with this one I tried to avoid line and build the drawing out of shading. It's a bit earnest* but there's parts I really like.

(* not sure I can explain that...I mean the drawing makes the viewer tense because it's clearly trying very hard to do this correctly)

Also they gave me free empanadas so win all round.

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These are great.
top right has a little of degas about the pose.

where is your class? I'm probably going to try to find one around Farringdon next month.

Thank you.

It's in the Post Bar on Tottenham High Road, up in grim far north London. It's not a formal class with technique tuition and exercises, more a regular session with ad hoc advice available if you ask.

I did do formal life drawing at school - lots of measuring along pencils - but that's long time ago now.

I think the shaded one is really good and that style is worth working on.

Sooo, I started drawing 3 days ago for the first time since school after being entirely put off it by my teacher. Getting over the fear of trying is a pretty big deal(I have handwriting a gp would be ashamed of).
I’ve just received a Jake Spicer book which I’m going to work through but have enjoyed copying a few things. Do love a jetsons building.

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All are great but esp love the top ones iget a real sence of the body and person.

Oh Yessssss. Fuck that teacher. This is great looks almost printed and you got that 50s font 👌. Keep going

This is great! And is that a TIE fighter? :-)

Getting over the fear of trying

Think I might have prattled on about this before here, but a good technique is to have some pages in your sketchbook (or a separate sketchbook) divided up in to a grid of something like 9 or 12 sections. Every day just do something in one of the sections. Might be a little drawing of a mouse. Might be some cross-hatching practice. Whatever.
Helps get over fear-of-blank-page and reduces the pressure to do a 'proper' drawing first time. Plus its an easy way to keep up drawing momentum even if you don't have much time.

Got inspired by art club to get doodling again with the up coming summer of football. Expect these characters to pop up across en-ger-lund

This is great!

Not quite perfect, though, until it is placed on the back of an animal. :)

Goes without saying as far as I'm concerned :-D

Watching football using it as inspiration most footballers have this expression.
"I never touched him ref"

Life drawing day!

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I did some coloring on a photocopy found on the net : )

These are great; really like the looseness of the top left sketch.

Nice Gaรɬ๑ຖ🐒 and all the other great work on this page. ^^^^^^

Work in progress. Teacher taking class to the schools garden and greenhouse.

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Clouds.

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Having a sort through my life drawing class pieces I’ve done pre Covid. Returned after a decade away reconnected in 2019

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