Life Drawing with Trudy Barber

 On Wednesdays there is life drawing sessions run by Trudy Barber. She is an observational artist, mainly working on portraits and the figure. This first session was a warm up to see how we all worked while drawing a subject in the middle of the room, Trudy had set up a big tree branch and a pot with flowers, which was not really the most exciting thing to draw but it was definitely challenging. We also ended the session by drawing the person next to us (which was Helena for me) and that was pretty fun. 

Personally I used charcoal to do my drawing because I find it very fun and quick to put down on the paper. I am quite well versed in life drawing as I did it a lot in college, so basically I was reliving those years and gaining those skills back. 

Next week will be a life model, so that will be more useful for my project. 

Urban Sketchers Portsmouth

 On Tuesday 28th me and Helena went to a meet up with a group that sketches different places in Portsmouth every Tuesday. They are called Urban Sketchers Portsmouth and it is mostly middle-aged and older people. We met up with them in Milton Park (which I had never been to before) and once everyone was there we all split up and found different spots to draw. Me, Helena and an older woman all sat down to draw the nearby play park, as I loved the amount of people and colourful metals of the swings and climbing frames. It was a really great experience, as talking to older people is really lovely because they have so much knowledge and are very chatty. 

Everyone met up at 1pm and put all of there drawings on the ground so that we could share our work, and then there was a group photo with everyone holding there drawings. 

It was really fun and I don't draw environments a lot so it was a good exercise.