Life drawing needs focus and to create a realistic drawing students need to observe, for sometime, the object, structure or being they intend to draw. To do this I often tell them that they must not get distracted, they must live and focus in the present and concentrate on what they are doing and not think about the future or the past as they draw. To help them relieve the pressure of long periods of concentration I will use an approach where the computer is introduced. I will ask them to take a photograph of what they are drawing and manipulate it several times in photoshop. This allows them to break from their drawing but it continues the observation familiarizing themselves deeper with the focus. It also allows them to consider new ways of approach the focus or subject matter as the assignment grows.
Below are examples of how this can work. The focus here is the arm, it can also be done with other life set ups.
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| The final result of drawing. |
The Computer Aided Design Images above were created by students who photographed their arms and other student arms
making their own compositions.
The last Image students were shown surrealist art work by Dali and were encouraged to invent their own surrealist images using only their arms.
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