The document provides instructions for a life drawing class, including multiple short gesture drawings to capture movement and balance using curved lines. Students are told not to worry as life drawing is difficult and the goal is to have fun. Later poses include longer 30 minute standing poses where students are instructed to look for landmarks on the skeleton to help convey volume and perspective more accurately.

1. Life Drawing 1: Hand, Eye and Mind
Gesture

2. 20 minute, simple standing pose…
Discuss your drawing with the person next to you.
What were you trying to convey in your drawing?
What has been conveyed?
What eluded you?
How were you drawing and looking?
What would you do differently in more time / less time?
DO NOT WORRY
Life drawing is a difficult discipline. We are not
expecting the drawings to be perfect. Have a go and
have FUN!

3. Gesture Drawings
3 x 5 minute drawings on one sheet
Remember, you are describing the eight parts of the body: head, spine,
pelvis, rib cage, arms (2) & legs (2) using c curves, s curves and straight lines.
The way you use these
lines will convey
movement, balance
and weight.

4. Let’s do that again…
3 x 5 minute drawings on one sheet
Tip: Try to think of wrapping lines
as rubber bands or string tied all
the way around the form. The
point of this exercise is to never
draw a straight line across your
drawing. From now on, only use
lines that travel around an
imagined surface. This will
develop a short hand of form and
perspective.

5. Gesture Drawing
Longer standing pose: 30 mins

6. The skeleton can be used to look at the figure symmetrically.
Landmarks give us this line of symmetry.
The pit of the neck at the bottom of the throat
The clavicles
The manubrium
The sternum
The ends of the thoraic arch of the rib cage
The belly button
The ends of the iliac crest of the pelvis and the bottom of the
pubic bone.
Observing the tilts across these points reveals the distribution of
weight. These landmarks help you draw volume, perspective and
improve your accuracy.
Landmarks

7. Gesture Drawing
20 minute standing pose
This time look for the skeleton. Consider the
landmarks and the way the spine may be
positioned.