For that reason, I decided that drawing lessons could be a great addition to my abilities and attended the life drawing sessions at university. This training (which I'm still attending when I find time) gave me knowledge about life drawing and was a good rehearse for the costume drawing for my project. Unlike the fashion designers, which most often use silhouettes and measurements of people with very skinny figure, costume makers for performance often meet a variety of figures which to fill their garment. So that sessions is also providing me the opportunity to explore shapes and forms of the costume body, where could some problem occur while wearing costumes and a time for me to think about solving these problems before the actual costume making.
The sessions consisted of 4 5-minute warming up drawings of a naked model in differents positions which don't have to be accurate and aren't assessed. Then, starts the real life drawing with the same model, with lighting added. Those are also 4 but this time we have 20 minutes for each. Life drawing do NOT include perspectives so its very important the piece of paper to be in a 90 angle from our eyes. Here're some of the sketches which I created during the first 2 drawing sessions as a complete beginner:
That's my very first drawing using measurements. The "x7" is the amounts of heads in the body or in other words illustration for the classic measurement approach: with a pencil measure the head of the model, keep your finger on the point where the head finishes and measure how many "heads" the other part of the body consists of. Then, draw a head (just mark it as a circle or oval form) on the list, measure it and add the same amount of heads as you already measured with the model marking each head with a point (as you can see on the drawing), then start connecting each dot with parts of the model's body.
Repeat the same exercise no matter whether the models is standing, sitting or lying
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