Category: My Life Drawing

Saturday’s life drawing

Venue: Basis, Stockholm, 20150307

I love the social aspect of going to Saturday life drawing at Basis. The people there are so warm and friendly. It’s a shame the lighting in the room is so bad, directional light is almost none existent. It gets better in the spring when natural light replaces the cold and cruel florescent tubes. I try not to let it affect me, this week I focused on line and detail – the shading was secondary. My bad period seems to be lifting, I feel more in harmony with my drawing. Grumpy artist, nothing worse.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing

Ups and downs

Venue; Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150303

I am struggling at life drawing at the moment. That’s the way it goes, up and down, great then bad. We even had a power-cut mid way through the last session, Had a great model but we were plunged into darkness during the coffee break and there was nothing else to do but go home early feeling a little bit depressed.
The good thing about a down period is that it is usually followed by an up.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude

Life drawing

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2015/03/06
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20150219

Tired model. An uninspired artist. Not too many good drawings produced at this session.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nudes

Tuesday’s life Drawing

Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150217

We had a new model, she is from Catalonia and is a circus artist. It’s always enjoyable with a new model, it takes time to get to know how to draw his or her form.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Sketch

Tuesday’s model

Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm. 20150203

We had a wonderful model this week which was a real treat. She held a very elegant pose, time after time. The session was quite inspiring.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude Sketch

Tuesday’s Life Drawing

Life Drawing at Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150127

I have not much to say about these illustrations. A picture speaks for itself anyway, so I’ll just sign off now and get back to my drawing-board.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude Sketch

Playing around

This female nude was incomplete until I got my fingers dirty with charcoal dust and finished the contours of her body.

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Sketch

Tuesday’s Life Drawing

Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150120

Ups and downs, that’s the way my abilities go when capturing a model’s pose.

I’ve had this model several times before, I’ve always struggled to catch her beauty and elegant ballerina posturing. It’s strange because she is quite pretty. I guess it’s like dating, sometimes there’s magic and on other occasions there is nothing at all. Does that make sense?

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David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Sketch

First life drawings of 2015

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2015/01/18
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Venue: Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 20150113.

It was nice to start life drawing again. I felt a bit rusty. The model, who is very good, made endless difficult poses for us. After a while I started to relax and enjoy myself. I used charcoal dust, my hero calligraphy pen and my trusty 0.7 Pentel mechanical pencil with 2b lead.

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