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11/20/11

Part 5 Draw and Experiment - Figure Drawing

With 4 options to choose from it wasn't easy for me to decide what to concentrate on for Part 5. After wasting enough time already, I decided on figure drawing – the reasons being:
Drawing from life is a fundamentally important aspect of drawing, because every aspect of drawing is covered here. Considering I started off so inept in this area, it is the one I feel I've made the most progress with, while simultaneously needing the most practice on.
Figure drawing is, I find, exacting and intensely demanding, in the sense that usually it is quite obvious if anything is out of kilter - so requires great concentration. Having only a limited time to capture gesture forces me to be in the moment and, I think, has helped to speed up my sketching and be more spontaneous and responsive in sketches of other subjects, albeit mostly very quick sketches. 
Added to this, my tutor was of the opinion I‘d made a good deal of progress with figure drawing since the beginning of Part 4, so that was an added encouragement.

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