Week 9 - Life Drawing

Today in life drawing I noticed my drawing skills leap. I started using materials that I felt uncomfortable with but i actually found that I was not that bad at using them, I created a nice wax pastel drawing today using shades of blue and I think it opened my eyes a lot more.
  The reason this helped me was because it allowed me to understand lighting. I found that when shading with pastels is best done with smudging the wax (for me anyway).

Sam took me through some pointers with measuring the head and I found it all very useful, by creating a box around the head and creating grid lines, I was able to determine where certain areas of the face were to be plotted in a dynamic pose.

I'm starting to bring together my skills that i have learnt over all of the weeks now and my drawings are starting to vastly improve.