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Life Drawing Workshop

In this workshop Life Drawing was reintroduced to us as a group. While I was much more confident than I was with the still life workshop, I was still apprehensive. A mistake in proportion is more easily noticed in the human figure and face, rather than in an object. So I decided to approach it as I did with my still life drawings, with drawing exercises such as continuous line drawing, blind drawing and gesture drawing.  Using a range of material such as pencils, markers and pens, we split into smaller groups. In these groups we agreed on times of poses and took turns being the model. It was not only a great drawing exercise but also gave us an opportunity to work as a group. I find that I feel as a teacher I should be in control, organised and independent. This served as a good reminder that there is a support system in my fellow student teachers and that it is a great place to go through ideas for classes. The drawing progressed well and it was interesting to see the ...