Life Drawing – Mark Taylor 'Studio Practice'

These drawings were all made during the Winter Life Drawing term which ran from January through to March 2020.

I tried to some new techniques primarily one whereby I cover the paper in charcoal and work by removing the charcoal with a rubber to reveal the tones and outlines. There are a couple of drawing where I feel that this has been successful. The confines of the room and the short length of the poses prevents me from using paint but I do want to start to introduce some colour into my drawings. This will be with chalk and or oil pastels. I will experiment with these during the Spring term which starts after Easter.

When I look back over my Drawings I do see a gradual improvement. It is slow but us perceptible. At some point probably after I have hopefully completed my degree I will look to get some tuition with regard to Life Drawing as I’m sure that there are techniques that would help me to improve.

I continue to attend a Life Drawing Group in Ely. We meet every week for three eight weeks sessions each year. The sessions are from 6:30pm to 9pm. The usual format is for the models to pose for three 5 minutes poses, two 20-25 minutes poses and one 45 minute pose. This sometimes changes depending upon requests within the group. Currently we have a roster of four models, Brian, Dexter, Sharon & Eva and they will normally have two sessions each over the eight week period. Since I started with the group during Drawing 1, which I completed in 2017, I have posted some of the better drawings in my blogs. I will do the same again during this course. The first set of drawings were from the Autumn 2019 term which was after I had sent my work and completed my blog for ‘Concepts in practice’