Figure Drawing Update: Drawing Gestures and the Portrait

In our June 5th Osher class, I wanted to help my students develop good gesture drawing skills.  I had David take a 5 minute pose, and I gave the students 2 minutes to draw a very fast, energetic, sloppy gesture drawing using one color of chalk.  After 2 minutes, we changed chalk color, slowed down, and added contour lines and shading in the final 3 minutes.  My drawings are below.

 

 We moved on to drawing the face.  I demonstrated drawing David's face front-on and in profile, and then the students drew me front-on and David in profile.  I was proud of their work in approaching this difficult subject.