Went for my 2nd ever life drawing session today. It was a 3 hour pose; I only stayed for 1.5 hours, because I wasn’t planning to work on a piece for that long. I ended up drawing the same pose 3 times.

Seems like the short poses sessions are more suitable for me! Because I’m so impatient. I tried the stick method of gauging distances, but it didn’t work out for me as well as if I just use plain visual observation.

Shading was tricky, as usual! I’ve never taken any classes on figure drawing, so I’ve never been taught any methods or anything. My method of drawing is crude & dependent on habit. I so need to attend a life drawing class! I realised that even in life drawing, a lot, especially shading still depends on one’s imagination and artistic sense. The finesse in wielding a pencil is important as well, especially in shading.

Ahh, I still have a lot to learn.

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