Children’s Life drawing Class
ODE TO THE LIFE DRAWING CLASS
There are some really fun angles in the legs.
Look at your model,
The human body is 8 heads deep.
The span of your arms,
Finger tip to finger tip
Is the same as your height.
From wrist to elbow is the same as the length of your feet,
Look at the proportions,
Look at your model.
Feet are tricky.
What happened to her weight line?
If she wasn’t leaning on that pillar
She would fall over…….
Think of the spine
Neck to navel is about
Twice the length of
Navel to pubis.
Step back.
Take a look at your picture.
Is the head the right size?
Are the proportions right?
Your standing model is
now sitting down.
8 heads stacked
Now 4 heads on top.
2 heads hips to knees.
2 heads knees to feet.
Look at the angles.
Heidi was the live model all day for the 10-15 year old students ….Stand up sit down… Lala was astonishing…She just kept them going with loads of interesting stuff. It started off as an anatomy lesson…..…. at the end of the 3 hour session, students not only had about 12 drawings of Heidi standing, sitting,and supine, but in the review of work done everyone saw how they’d progressed……Heidi on the otherhand felt rather drawn !!!


I love it! Art to inspire poetry… poetry to inspire art! Thanks =)