Drawing movement on location

After drawing from Gif images I went into Cheltenham High Street and did a few observational sketches of members of the public walking past and how they walked. I picked different ages, sizes and builds to get a variety of different styles.

Young man with sports bag on his phone

Heavily pregnant shopper and elderly woman with a cane

 

Drawing from a looped moving image

Drawing from a looped moving image was a useful technique to learn from for later drawing from observation of real moving people on location drawing. I use three looped Gif images, a running man, a man turning on the spot and two men fencing.

Running man

Turning on the spot looped drawing

Turning on the spot and fencing

Fencing men

Detailed observation of form

Sketch with form

Sketch without form

Portrait drawing

Kirsty (Finished)

This drawing came from a focused afternoon drawing a portrait of a peer. Created using charcoal. Taking time to observe and get facial features in proportion first was very useful in creating my portrait, once I had mapped out in a sketch I was able to begin detail and shading.

Close-up (Unfinished)

Observing and drawing a musician

A collection of drawings and sketches made from observing a musician rehearsing and playing music in the Chapel. Mixed media of pencil and ink and different approaches from focused drawings to quick sketches. I found this exercise drawing from a moving subject difficult at first but found it helped develop memory on what I see.
 

Initial sketches

Further sketchwork

Focusing in detail

Focused observation

 

In context

Working in ink

The Chapel

Quick ink sketches