Today's life drawing session was interesting, as I completely immersed myself in looking at tonal values in the surroundings of the figure, almost forgetting that I'm looking at human form and considering the scene as a whole, trying to avoid the "tunnel vision" that I normally get when drawing a figure. This exercise has been about relating everything in the drawing to the surrounding area, working the whole drawing rather than focusing on details and I think it really shows through in my drawing this week. Firstly this is the first drawing that has been worked all over the paper, rather than leaving some bits unfinished, (like feet in most of my previous work), secondly because the figure is rather large and I was focusing on the tones, I have completely neglected to look at proportions, instead focusing my energy on getting an overall feeling of the scene. I am please with the result, despite the fact that it's not normally what I would consider a good depiction of the actual model. But it's okay because what I did instead was to gain a new perspective and try a different approach.
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