Drawing Class: Semester Two Week Eight

Today, we did "information collecting": two minute quick sketches, ten minute full poses rounded off by ten minute poses of a particular area (foot, hand, head) that we haven't focused on in great detail before. We are to create five characters for the final mural piece we are going to work on together of a large hundred man battle scene.

Our model for this week was Steve. I dislike drawing Steve; he is a very difficult person to draw. I find it difficult to not let my impression of him being way too skinny influence my drawing. As such, I can see the regular pattern emerging of being unable to cope well with foreshortening resulting in limbs becoming elongated and just weird looking. Or is that just me imagining things...?

Sorry, it's not the greatest quality photo. Bad focus on it.