take a life drawing class

I did a set of 4 3 hour sessions. It was a great experience. You can see the pics here:
http://damienmason.blogspot.com/search/label/life%20drawing

but i haven’t done it for ages. it’s good for the spirit being creative. i took a short course about 5 years ago and once i got over the initial embarassment i loved it, and improved quite quickly. i’d love to get some teaching: i’ve only ever produced art work i was happy with when inspired by a teacher. by myself i don’t know where to start.

I used to do this and it’s really the only thing I’ve ever done where I totally lose track of time once I’m into it. I’m not great but it completely focusses me away from my thoughts and into the here and now of the activity. I have all the gear, and could just draw, but I am not motivated.

Although we never did learn much about anatomy. It was one of the first times that I did work that focused on very small parts of a bigger subject. It also made me a little less self-conscious…

Yesterday afternoon, when I talked to the staff about my motivation to take some life drawing classes, they all wanted to take them too! I contacted a life drawing instructor at Sheridan College about coming in to the studio once a week for several weeks with a model to inspire all of us, and she’s agreed. Now it’s just planning the details and finding about when the first class will be. I’m pretty excited about this.

As a partner in a marketing company, I’m surrounded by talented people. Every day, we produce stunning package designs, inspiring advertisements, or other forms of beautiful visual communications that sell products and services. I’m fortunate because I can participate in the design process and keep the creative juices flowing by conceptualizing projects with clients and staff.

Unfortunately, I don’t get to put pen to paper anymore. My own artistic talents (such as they were) have atrophied. It has been years since I last picked up pastels to sketch something just for the fun of it.

So it’s high time to stretch. Time to stop thinking about art simply as a means to create a consumer buying impulse. It’s time to challenge myself, get past the confines of commercial art and try to ignite creative passions again.

Why life drawing? I always struggled with this back in school. Maybe with maturity I can now look beyond the human body as something to be idealized and rendered with perfection. Capturing character is so much more true to form.

i’ve done life drawing in my art class. It is definitely worth it especially if you want to get into an art school(you need some pieces for your portfolio). Studying and observing the complexity of the human body is important to broadened our view of life. To improve your art/drawing skills, life drawing is mandatory. There is an art school in france that focused only in life drawing because they think life drawing is the foundation of art – the lines and perspective and shape and shade and everthing else in art are found in life drawing.

as you might think. It’s interesting to see bodies of all ages, sexes and shapes. Bodies are weird things.